Creating an NFS share on a Windows 2008 server for unix / linux clients

Windows 2008 has the ability to "share" file resources using NFS. This guide will guide you through doing this. In this scenario we will have two machines named "WIN-NFS" which will be our Windows 2008 Server and "redcloud" which will be our Red Hat linux client.

This can also be done on Windows 2003 check here for details Setup Windows 2003 NFS

As unlikely as it sounds to a UNIX die hard there are times when you require a Windows Server to share out an NFS folder. This document explains how to setup a simple scenario which will create a NFS disk resource on a Windows box which is mountable from a Unix client (a Sun Solaris 5.10 machine in this case). For those of us who use both Windows and Unix daily this is quite a handy ability to have.