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Apparently the nfs client feature is available for windows 10 PRO but not working according to this threadAny way to make it work?

vigilian
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If you ever want to get NFS enabled in Windows environment, then the steps below is a great place to start It shows you how to connect Windows 10 machines to NFS shares hosted on Ubuntu 16.04 / 17.10 and 18.04 servers NFS or Network File System, is a distributed file system that can be enabled in a client/server environment.

  • Click Turn Windows fetures on or off on the left-side and check boxes on Services for NFS like follows and click OK button. 3 It's ready to mount NFS shared.
  • I have an education license for Win 8 that I upgraded to Win 10. However I am unable to turn the NFS client on under turn windows features on or off (it is not listed) although according to overviews the education edition of win 10 should have that feature as available.
  • The NFS client must be enabled on the client Windows system. The Windows 7 operating system can provide an NFS client, but the NFS client service is disabled by default, and must be enabled for access to NFS exports from the IBM SONAS system.
vigilian
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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 Ultimate and Windows Enterprise 7 to Windows 10 PRO. It has been released in the last update.

Don't forget to install the nfs client from Windows features (will show some images later). To mount the share you can do it through Explorer like you would do with samba share so

or you can do it through command line with mount

Some things you should know.

  • User permission won't really work out of the box like to would be inLinux. So it is very probable that Explorer accept to map the sharebut won't accept to enter the share. So begin to set up a share whereeverybody will be able to write and read. So with chmod -R 777. I guess that the nfs client is not totally implemented.
  • Software like acronis true won't be able to enter the share eitherbecause it seems that a whole extended interfaces features have beenadded to Explorer so guess is that software have to be coded toimplement those yet.
  • Don't be afraid of the big latency that Explorer seems to have incomparison of Linux, again the implementation is not yet perfect.
  • if you map through command line to a drive letter, the mapping won't survive a reboot.

    If anyone else have some new knowledge based on experience or reading about others bugs and possible problems with this NFS's client, please do share.

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I have Windows 7 Professional, but the NFS Client for Windows is only included in the Enterprise and Ultimate editions.

I would like to connect some Windows machines to our NFS server so I can drop the Samba Server we are currently using.

Are there any free NFS clients for Windows 7?

I know there are some tools like ProNFS and axeNFS but they are not free.

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Check this open source project:

Nekodrive
https://github.com/nekoni/nekodrive

The target of this project is to implement NFS (Network File System v2/v3/v4.1) over the Dokan user file system for windows. This let you mount very easily an NFS export as a local windows drive. You don't need any NFS windows client to access the NFS remote export, you can just use microsoft explorer. The current version doesn't support NFS v4.1 yet.

nikoniko

As long as I understand the question, you should be able to use Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX. You can get them here:

Informative Edit: Download in link is no longer available. 2017-Nov-05

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As only a last resort I suppose it would be possible to install a linux in a Virtualization environment hosted by the Windows workstation, ie. Virtualbox- which would then provide a shared storage that the guest would have mounted as an NFS volume.

I imagine it would help considerably to have a seperate network interface for the guest to mount the share through.

In other words:

  1. Install Virtualbox to Windows desktop.

  2. Install TinyCore to Virtualbox.

  3. Sap netweaver library. Configure TinyCore's environment to include a shared storage directory.

  4. Install nfs-common to TinyCore.

  5. Mount desired NFS share from TinyCore.

6a. Either point the Virtualbox share to where TinyCore mounts the NFS share to reach it from the Windows host,

or

6b. Mount the NFS mount to the directory Virtualbox is providing to the Windows host.

As I said, last resort.

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There's an NFS 4.1 Windows client open source project from UMichigan, but you have to build it yourself and I suspect it would need some testing before deployment in a production environment.

ZancheyZanchey

I'd be hesitant of running one that isn't Microsoft's or a very well tested solution - especially for any 'serious' sharing (beyond simple file copy).

Realize NFS is a very powerful network protocol, more so than most people use it for. For example storing virtual machine images on NFS works fine, survives a server outage (regardless of length) without losing data, etc.

This covers why it's not 'easy' - http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-10/msg01074.html

A better question mayb e why not just use samba on the nfs server to expose the shares via smb? I ask because you make it sound like the two servers are unrelated. Samba should be fairly easy to support on the same machine.

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I don't know of any free NFS client programs for Windows. I did some googling and found these:

skrewlerskrewler

I tried the Win7 NFS client and it wasnt that great. So dont be too quick to drop your samba server, even if you find a client.

I think cygwin has a NFS client and server now. However the client is just the cusp of the problem. There's also aligning the unix permissions with the windows ones which is non-trivial.

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