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I decided to give NFS a shot, since it was simple, higher performance (in theory) and easy to get going. I am using Windows 10 Pro 64-bit for my NFS client. I do not know if all editions of Windows 10 support NFS, I imagine “Home” probably does not. I'm trying to mount a share from My Cloud to Windows 10 Ultimate using NFS. I've enabled NFS in Windows 10, but I can't seem to mount. I keep getting invalid UN and PW. What's the best way to do this from a Windows 10. NFS's client from windows have finally been updated for Windows 10 PRO. So with your latest windows 10 PRO 14393.576, your NFS's client is finally operational in comparison with before like shown in this thread: as stated before by Tom jolly Tom Jolly (Group Software Engineering Manager) in the same thread, they were working on a fix because of problems with the transition from Windows.

We had two NFS shares that we needed to allow windows user's to connect (if it was possible) after some hassle it was.

This is specifically for a machine that is not on an active directory domain or if you do not want to set up the AD identity service.

I have tested this functionality in Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 Anniversary edition.

** All OSes tested were enterprise edition. i believe all versions of 8 and 10 have this available but win 7 is enterprise only **

10 Steps total

Step 1: Go to windows add or remove features

Step 2: Under Services for NFS click on NFS Client for Windows

Step 3: Once the package installs follow these instructions

Find your linux UID and GID by typing the following on your linux server.

Id -USERNAME
this will print your uid and gid

Step 4: Once you have this information you will need to add/modify two registry keys:

*** Alternative Copy after this line to a text file and name it with a .reg extension and run it.***

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftClientForNFSCurrentVersionDefault]
'AnonymousGid'=dword:00000000
'AnonymousUid'=dword:00000000

Step 5: Make sure to edit the IDs before importing

This binary calculator can help convert a decimal number (the number you got from the id command) to hexadecimal which is the format the is required for the windows registry key.

http://www.binaryhexconverter.com/decimal-to-hex-converter

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Alternatively, you can run or add the registry keys above by navigating to the location mentioned in the windows registry, when editing the registry key, make sure the decimal radio button is checked.

Step 6: Reboot!!

Yes i mean it, if not your NFS Client wills till use the old Anonymous IDs and will not allow you to connect if you dont allow anonymous connections

Step 7: Mounting NFS Share:

This step and forward is just instructions on mounting the share as it should now be accessible.

Step 8: Run a windows command prompt window.

Step 9: Type the following

mount -o nolock share:/SHAREPATH {desired drive letter}

Step 10: If you are mounting to the root of the share location, type in

Mount -o nolock share:/! {desired drive letter}

it is very important to put the ! As the connection will not work without it.

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10 Comments

• Cayenne
  SBS0518 Nov 4, 2016 at 07:20pm

  I'm on 7, SP1 but the NFS option isn't listed.

• Serrano
  Xylems92 Nov 4, 2016 at 08:07pm

  Ill attach a screen shot of what it looks like and the version of windows 7 i am running.

• Serrano
  JM0176 Nov 4, 2016 at 08:08pm

  its pretty straight forward i'm not a huge linux user myself only our guys who code really use linux. But its cool to know if we need to access and of our servers this way.

• Serrano
  Xylems92 Nov 4, 2016 at 08:11pm

  SBS0518: As far as the screen shot ill just leave it out. I changed the wording the options is not called NFS services its called Services for NFS so alphabetically look for S not N.

  The version of windows i am testing this on is : Windows 7 SP 1 Ver 6.1.7601

• Serrano
  JoshScott9 Nov 4, 2016 at 08:50pm

  You need Windows 7 Enterprise for NFS Client. They took it out of Windows 7 Pro. Or else you can use a third-party option.

• Serrano
  jorgealdana Nov 4, 2016 at 08:54pm

  SBS0518, You need the Enterprise version of Win7 to have the NFS features, Pro does not have it.

• Serrano
  Xylems92 Nov 4, 2016 at 08:57pm

  Well there you have it. i never looked because we use enterprise here

• Jalapeno
  gunnermike53 Nov 4, 2016 at 08:59pm

  I'm a little confuse. Why wouldn't you just map a drive

  ip addressshare folder

  UN: domainusername
  PW: whatever

• Mace
  bbigford Nov 4, 2016 at 10:25pm

  @mchance2, you're thinking of SMB (Server Message Block). That's for windows. NFS (Network File System) is what *nix uses primarily. If you try to connect to a *nix share the way you're suggesting, it won't work.

• Jalapeno
  MassT Nov 7, 2016 at 09:50pm

  What there is an NFS client in Windows! Thank you very much for info.