1. Open Windows Explorer.
2. On the Tools menu, click Map Network Drive.
3. In the Drive list, click the drive letter to use.
4. To locate the network file system (NFS) share, click Browse, or, in Folder, type the path to the share. You can specify the path as:

   serverName:/path

   (for example: goldbug:/poe/stories),

   or as:

   \\serverName\path

   (for example: \\goldbug\poe\stories).

5. To connect using a different user name or password, click Connect using a different user name, type the user name and password, and then click OK.
6. Click Finish, and then, to accept the default login settings, click Yes, or to change the login settings, click No.

Notes

• To open Windows Explorer, click Start, point to Programs, point to Accessories, and then click Windows Explorer.
• If you type the path to the share, the first format shown above is preferred. It causes look-up operations to time out more quickly, and therefore locates and mounts the NFS resource sooner. The second format searches for Windows NT file systems with this name first, and then searches for NFS resources.
• If your logon name exists in the authentication domain (PCNFSD or NIS) and is properly mapped on User Name Mapping, you will be able to access the network file system (NFS) resources with proper credentials. Otherwise, you must access the resources as an anonymous user. You can change Windows logon credentials to a mapped account, however, by clicking Connect using a different user name. You can also specify PCNFS credentials by clicking No after clicking Finish to close the Map Network Drive dialog box.

• At a command prompt, type:

  mount [–o options] [–u:username] [–p:{password | *}] computerName:/shareName {deviceName | *}

  or

  mount [–o options] [–u:username] [–p:{password | *}] \\computerName\shareName {deviceName | *}

Argument	Description
–o rsize=n	The read buffer size, in kilobytes. Acceptable values are 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, and 32; the default is 32 KB.
–o wsize=n	The write buffer size, in kilobytes. Acceptable values are 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, and 32; the default is 32 KB.
–o timeout=n	The time-out for a remote procedure call (RPC), in seconds. Acceptable values are 0.8, 0.9, and any integer in the range 1-60; the default is 0.8.
–o retry=n	The number of retries for a soft mount. Acceptable values are integers in the range 1-10; the default is 1.
–o mtype={soft | hard}	Soft or hard mount. Regardless of the mount type, mount will return if it cannot immediately mount the share. Once the share has been successfully mounted, however, if the mount type is hard, Client for NFS will continue to try to access the share until it is successful. As a result, if the network file system (NFS) server is unavailable, the Windows application trying to access the share will appear to stop responding, or "hang," if the mount type is hard.
–o anon	Mounts as anonymous user.
–o nolock	Disables locking. This option might improve performance if you only need to read files.
-o lang={euc-jp|euc-tw|euc-kr|shift-jis|big5|ksc5601|gb2312-80|ansi}	Specifies the default encoding used for file and directory names and, if used, must be set to one of the following: ansi big5 (Chinese) euc-jp (Japanese) euc-kr (Korean) euc-tw (Chinese) gb2312-80 (Simplified Chinese) ksc5601 (Korean) shift-jis (Japanese) If this option is set to ansi on systems configured for non-English locales, the encoding scheme is set to the default encoding scheme for the locale. The following are the default encoding schemes for the indicated locales: Japanese: SHIFT-JIS Korean: KS_C_5601-1987 Simplified Chinese: GB2312-80 Traditional Chinese: BIG5
-o fileaccess=mode	Specifies the default permission mode of new files created on the NFS share. Specify mode as a three-digit number in the form ogw, where o, g, and w are each a digit representing the access granted the file's owner and group and the world, respectively. The digits must be in the range 0–7 with the following meaning: 0: No access 1: x (execute access) 2: w (write access) 3: wx 4: r (read access) 5: rx 6: rw 7: rwx Interix utilities and applications do not use these default permissions when creating a file on the NFS share. Instead, they set permissions according to the user's default-mode settings as set by the umask(1) utility.
–o pcnfs=server	Specifies the PCNFS server that is to be used for authenticating the user. You must use the -u and -p options to specify the name of the user and password with this option.
–u:username	The user name of the user to use for mounting the share.
–p:{password | *}	The password of the user to use for mounting the share. If you use the asterisk (*), you will be prompted for the password.
computerName	The name of the server with the share to mount.
shareName	The name of the shared directory to mount.
deviceName | *	The drive letter to assign to the mounted share. The asterisk (*) means use the next available letter.

Notes

• To view the complete syntax for this command, at a command prompt, type:

  mount /?

• The first format shown above is preferred. It causes look-up operations to time out more quickly, and therefore locates and mounts the NFS resource sooner. The second format searches for Windows NT file systems with this name first, and then searches for NFS resources.
• You can also use the net use command to map a network drive using a Windows user name and password that are mapped by User Name Mapping to a UNIX account for the NFS server. For more information about using the net use command, see Windows Help or type net use /? at the command prompt.
• You cannot use mount to create a persistent connection using PCNFS authentication. Before attempting to use mount with PCNFS authentication, type the command net use /persistent:no at a Windows command prompt to disable persistent connections.