To set up an NFS share for access by Windows computers

Using the Windows interface

  1. Open Gateway for NFS Configuration.
  2. In the Share Name box, type a name for the drive you are going to share. This is the name by which Windows clients will access the resource.
  3. In the Drive list, click the drive letter you want to assign to the share if you do not want to use the drive that appears automatically.
  4. Do one of the following:
    • In the Network Resources list, double-click Default LAN, double-click the server that contains the directory, and then click the directory name.
    • Or, in the Network Resource box, type the name of the network file system (NFS) server and the exported directory you want to make available to the Windows network, or click the server and directory in the drop-down list. Type the server name as:
      \\serverName or serverName:
  5. In the Encoding list, click the encoding to use when mounting from the NFS server. In addition to the default American National Standards Institute (ANSI) encoding, the following encoding is available:
    • 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
  6. In the Comment box, type a brief description of the network share you are establishing. The comment is optional.
  7. Click Maximum Allowed, or, to specify the number of users, click Allow, and in the Users box, type the number of users to allow.
  8. To allow Windows users who do not have accounts mapped to UNIX accounts by User Name Mapping to access files in the NFS directory, select Allow Unmapped Users.
  9. Click Permissions.
  10. In Gateway for NFS Share Permissions, click the user or group for which you want to set permissions and then, in the Type of Access list, click the permissions you want to give them.

Notes

Using a command line

Argument Description
driveName The drive on which to mount the network file system (NFS) share.
networkResource The NFS server and path.
shareName The name of the share.
comment Text to display when the share is mounted from a Common Internet File System (CIFS) client.
users The maximum number of users permitted on the share.
–m {yes|no} Allows or disallows Windows users who do not have accounts mapped to UNIX accounts by User Name Mapping to access files in the NFS directory.
-l {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

Note

Related Topics

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gwshare

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Using Gateway for NFS Configuration