Accessing NFS from Windows

All NFS servers at CSAIL also run Samba services to serve their volumes to Windows clients as well. Thus, to access NFS mounts, your machine must be part of the Active Directory domain. (We recommend you avoid Microsoft Services for Unix.)

See the Active Directory How to for details on Active Directory. Once set up, make sure you log in to your machine with your CSAIL Kerberos account and password (and choose CSAIL.MIT.EDU under "Login To:").

You will then access the NFS volume by clicking Start/Run... and typing

• \\NFSSERVERNAME.csail.mit.edu\MOUNT

Examples:

• For an NFS server mounted on a Linux workstation as zim.csail.mit.edu:/export/vision-trevor, you would type: \\zim.csail.mit.edu\vision-trevor

Internal TIG note

See server configuration notes in SambaServer