Services for UNIX Team - Microsoft
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
SUA Download links for different operating systems
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