Friday, January 7, 2011

NFS on MS Windows Server 2003

I am trying out Zen Cloud and a need for NFS as a shared resource arise. My colleague has a Windows server running and i found out that I can run NFS server on the Windows 2003 server.

http://blog.peacon.co.uk/wiki/Creating_an_NFS_Server_using_Windows_Server_2003


In short you need Services for Unix (SFU), which can be downloaded at:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=896c9688-601b-44f1-81a4-02878ff11778


The version I had is Windows Services for UNIX Version 3.5.


Happy New Year and cheers :)