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Monday, August 17, 2009

Configure Windows 2008 as NFS share for VMware ESX 3.5, 4.0

This step-by-step guide contains necessary steps to setup Windows 2008 as a NFS server for VMware ESX server.
Source: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/188140

*** On Domain Controller, Install Identity Management AD Schema Extension for Unix


# run: servermanagercmd -install ADDS-Identity-Mgmt
That installs
Identity Management Active Directory Shema extensions for Unix
and Active Directory (eg ), if not already installed

# Create AD user 'root', uid = 0
# Create AD group 'root' (pre-win2000 group name e.g. 'root-') gid = 0
# Set unix properties of 'root' user to uid = 0 and gid = 0

*** On file server, install Service for NFS

# Set Identity AD Name to your AD domain

*** On file server, Configure Share

# Create SMB share
# Set NTFS Perm to Everyone Full Control

# Permission for NFS:
## Allow anonymous access: uncheck
## Root Access: allow