Anonymous Access To An Nfs Share - HP ProLiant 300 Series Administration Manual

Anonymous access to an NFS share

It may be desirable to add anonymous access to a share. An instance would be when it is not desirable
or possible to create and map a UNIX account for every Windows user. A UNIX user whose account is
not mapped to a Windows account is treated by Server for NFS as an anonymous user. By default, the
user identifier (UID) and group identifier (GID) is -2.
For example, if files are created on an NFS Share by UNIX users whose are not mapped to Windows
users, the owner of those files are listed as anonymous user and anonymous group, (-2,-2).
By default, Server for NFS does not allow anonymous users to access a shared directory. When an NFS
share is created, the anonymous access option can be added to the NFS share. The values can be
changed from the default anonymous UID and GID values to the UID and GID of any valid UNIX user
and group accounts.
When allowing anonymous access to an NFS Share, the following must be performed by a user with
administrative privileges due to Windows Storage Server 2003 security with anonymous users and the
Everyone group.
1. From the WebUI, select Maintenance.
2. Click Remote Desktop. Log on to the storage server.
3. Click Start >Control Panel > Administrative Tools, and then click Local Security Policy.
4. In Security Settings, double-click Local Policies, and then click Security Options.
5. Right-click Network access: Let Everyone permissions apply to anonymous users,
and then click Properties.
6. To allow permissions applied to the Everyone group to apply to anonymous users, click Enabled.
The default is Disabled.
7. Restart the NFS server service. From a command prompt, enter net stop nfssvc. Then enter net start
nfssvc. Notify users before restarting the NFS service.
8. Assign the Everyone group the appropriate permissions on the NFS Share.
9. Enable anonymous access to the share.
To enable anonymous access to an NFS share, do the following.
1. Open Windows Explorer by clicking Start > Run, and entering explorer.
2. Navigate to the NFS share.
3. Right-click the NFS Share, and then click Properties.
4. Click NFS Sharing.
5. Select the the Allow Anonymous Access checkbox.
6. Change from the default of -2,-2, if desired.
7. Click Apply.
8. Click OK.
Encoding Types
Encoding types can be selected using the WebUI. These include the default ANSI as well as EUC-JP.
Other encoding types include:
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