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Unable to copy “Password Sync” encryption key from Windows 2003, SFU 3.5 to Windows 2008 R2

Recently, we have a case where the customer was unable to copy the Password Sync encryption key from...

Author: rohitban Date: 09/20/2011

How to rename an existing Active Directory NIS domain

Renaming a Windows NIS domain name may become essential as default NIS domain that IDMU captures is...

Author: abhisekbasu Date: 09/19/2011

Scripts to populate the memberuid attributes when migrating from SFU 3.5 to RFC 2307 schema

As discussed on my earlier Blog post:...

Author: rohitban Date: 05/27/2011

Scripts to populate the UNIX attributes when migrating from SFU 3.5 to RFC 2307 schema

We do get lot of issues where customer has migrated\upgraded from SFU 3.5 to Windows 2003...

Author: rohitban Date: 05/25/2011

Service logon credentails for 'Client for NFS' service

On Windows 2003, SFU 3.5: In SFU 3.5, the default logon type is ‘local system’. We can...

Author: rohitban Date: 05/25/2011

Permission Denied while trying accessing the file from UNIX clients

There was an issue in Windows 2008 R2, where the Unix clients were unable to honor the NTFS style of...

Author: rohitban Date: 04/20/2011

Symantec backup is unable to locate NFS drive

Recently we got a case where customer was trying to do a backup of a NFS share using Symantec. He...

Author: rohitban Date: 04/12/2011

Unable to run the NISMAP command on a DC from a non admin credentials

We had a scenario where the customer was looking for a option to run the nismap command on a DC...

Author: rohitban Date: 04/06/2011

How to programmatically access NFS share using Windows API

Recently, we got a case where the customer wanted to programmatically access NFS share using Windows...

Author: rohitban Date: 04/06/2011

Getting permission denied error intermittently from Unix clients

Recently we got a case where customer informed that intermittently he is getting access denied error...

Author: rohitban Date: 04/04/2011

Unable to run the ‘chown’ command from Unix clients (Permission denied)

Recently we got an issue where the Users from Unix clients were getting permission denied while...

Author: rohitban Date: 04/04/2011

Mount command fails against Cluset IP / Name

I came across a scenario where mount command was failing when we put it across the Cluster IP /...

Author: abhisekbasu Date: 04/03/2011

Migrating Windows 2003 + SFU 3.5 and Server for NIS to Windows 2008 R2

Most of the domain controllers running on Windows 2003 and serving purpose of Server for NIS for...

Author: abhisekbasu Date: 04/03/2011

Unable to run the chown command from UNIX clients

Recently we had an issue where the user from the Unix clients were unable to run the...

Author: rohitban Date: 03/17/2011

"Permission denied", while accessing the Files on a NFS share from Solaris clients

We got an issue where customer was running an automated process on the Unix NFS clients that creates...

Author: rohitban Date: 03/07/2011

Issues with Server for NIS

Recently, we faced couple of issues with Server for NIS. The environment looks like: 2 Windows 2008...

Author: rohitban Date: 02/21/2011

Setting up mailX with MS Exchange in SUA

In case you want to setup sendmail on SUA and use your MS Exchange to actually receive the mail and...

Author: abhisekbasu Date: 02/21/2011

Unable to start “Client for NFS” service on Windows 2003 R2 x64

Recently we got a case where customer was having issue starting Client for NFS service. It was...

Author: rohitban Date: 02/15/2011

Unable to bind the HPUnix clients to Windows 2008 R2 Server

Recently we had a customer, who was having issue binding the HP UNIX client to Windows 2008 R2...

Author: rohitban Date: 02/03/2011

gwshare command notworking for members of Administrators group

In one of the recent issues reported; members of the administrators group were unable to issue...

Author: abhisekbasu Date: 01/17/2011

Installing NFS Auth on Windows 2003 R2 from command line

I am finally back here J in this year. Recently, I have spent some time to find the steps to install...

Author: abhisekbasu Date: 01/14/2011

User name mapping not working through ADlookup

Recently we had an issue where User Name Mapping were not working through ADlookup. Initially it...

Author: rohitban Date: 01/12/2011

Important Tips on NFS (Part 4)

What registry keys can be modified, if the number of Unix clients are more? We can make the...

Author: rohitban Date: 12/09/2010

Important Tips on NFS (Part 3)

Why we are unable to do a persistent mount across logons? Even using the command below to mount NFS...

Author: rohitban Date: 12/09/2010

Important Tips on NFS (Part 2)

Why I am unable to change ownership from Windows clients? This is due to the default Unix style...

Author: rohitban Date: 12/09/2010

Important Tips on NFS (Part 1)

How can we map users in Windows 2008? In windows 2008\2008 R2, we have the following options: 1....

Author: rohitban Date: 12/09/2010

Managing Permission on NFS share

Unix style permission is bit different from Windows style permission. Files and directories are...

Author: rohitban Date: 10/20/2010

Unable to fetch User name mapping information from passwd and group file

Recently we got a case where customer was having issue fetching the maps from the group and passwd...

Author: rohitban Date: 09/30/2010

How to configure users maps local users on Windows 2008

Recently we got a case where customer was looking for mapping local users on Windows 2008. The first...

Author: rohitban Date: 09/30/2010

List of Hotfix for SFU 3.5

Please find the list of Hotfix for SFU 3.5. For Server for NFS:...

Author: rohitban Date: 09/02/2010

Mounting Windows 2008 NFS share as a datastore on ESX

With the advancement in virtualization technologies, there has been an increase in the way shares...

Author: devendra1 Date: 08/24/2010

List of Hotifx to update the Server for NFS drivers in Windows 2003 R2

Please find the list of patch, one need to install to update the Server for NFS related drivers in...

Author: rohitban Date: 08/23/2010

Error running the tar command with 'P' parameter from SUA on Windows 2008 R2

Recently we got a case where customer was getting error while running the tar command with the P...

Author: rohitban Date: 08/20/2010

Stale NFS file handle : Windows 2008 R2 and Solaris 10

Recently I faced a scenario where Solaris 10 systems were unable to mount the NFS share from a...

Author: abhisekbasu Date: 08/20/2010

Getting “RPC timed out” while accessing NFS share from UNIX client

Recently we got a case where customer was unable to access NFS share from Unix client. The share was...

Author: rohitban Date: 08/18/2010

Issue with NFS access between Windows and Macintosh

Recently we got a case where customer was sharing files through NFS between Windows and Macintosh....

Author: rohitban Date: 08/13/2010

Executing Win32 commands in RSH - revisited

In my last post; the execution of Win32 commands through RSH was considered. Although the method...

Author: abhisekbasu Date: 08/12/2010

"Server for NIS cannot obtain one or more server names from Active Directory"

Recently we got a case in which customer was using SFU 3.5 and Server for NIS was installed....

Author: rohitban Date: 08/12/2010

Replacing everyone group through Registry – NFS

We recently had a query, where customer was trying to configure the following registry key so that...

Author: rohitban Date: 08/06/2010

Executing Win32 commands in RSH

Very often we get requests to setup environment where client will connect to Windows RSH server and...

Author: abhisekbasu Date: 08/06/2010

Password sync not working between Windows to Unix

Recently we got case where password Sync was not working. Customer had configured password Sync on a...

Author: rohitban Date: 08/03/2010

Password sync does not work for users while changing password on Solaris 10

Consider this scenario: 1. Solaris 10 Sparc is working as NIS Master. 2. We have also, installed the...

Author: abhisekbasu Date: 08/03/2010

RSH client (of SUA) fails to connect to Solaris 10 RSH server

Recently we worked on an incident where we trying to execute a command using RSH from Solaris...

Author: rohitban Date: 07/22/2010

PAM module does not work properly with UNIX NIS Master and Windows 2008 R2

Consider this scenario: RHEL is working as a NIS Master server. Windows 2008 R2 box is installed...

Author: abhisekbasu Date: 07/02/2010

Recently noticed, that the SUA SDK installation is not going to the desired page to download the...

Author: abhisekbasu Date: 07/02/2010

ID command of SUA does not return uidNumber from the Active Directory

Recently we got an issue where running ID command on a Windows 2008 was returning a number different...

Author: rohitban Date: 07/02/2010

Unable to execute windows commands in a single line through RSH

Recently we got a issue where customer wanted to start/stop windows service using RSH. The operating...

Author: rohitban Date: 06/22/2010

Unable to install NFS on Windows 2008

We were working on a case in which we were unable to install NFS components on Windows 2008....

Author: devendra1 Date: 06/22/2010

Unable to save the User name mapping information in windows 2008

We do get cases where the User name mapping information is lost after restarting the Server/User...

Author: rohitban Date: 06/18/2010

Network error 67: The network name cannot be found

We were working on a case in which users were unable to mount NFS share from a UNIX machine on a...

Author: devendra1 Date: 06/18/2010

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