You can download
Services For Unix from Microsoft for free and it will let you map a drive to a
NFS share the same was as a CIFS share. Save yourself the CIFS license if this
really is only for management.
From a management standpoint
you can still you the Computer Management MMC to manage everything.
Jeremy
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Systems Architect
From:
owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Jimmy Corncrake
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008
5:22 AM
To: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: Accessing a Filer Root
Volume from Windows with only NFS Licensed
Hi,
we are in the process of deploying a number of Filers which will
provide Storage for VMWARE. To date we have always run CIFS as our Storage has
up until now served Windows client requests only. Our new Filers will
be running with NFS licensed as opposed to CIFS. As I am a self confessed UNIX
illiterate I will want to presist with managing these new Filers from
my Windows Clients. I know that ISCSI. which will be licenced. will provide us
with some CIFS features such as the ability to register the devices within AD
and create CIFS shares which will be read-only. However we will still want to
retain the ability to read-write the root volume and in generally manage these
devices as we have done until now. I assume to achieve this I will need to
install NFS Client software. Does anyone have an recommendations on such client
software or any other observations that may be of use to us as we step beyond
our familiar boundaries?
Jimmy C.