From the course: Windows Server 2012 Active Directory: File System and Storage

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Storage optimization: Network File System (NFS) data store

Storage optimization: Network File System (NFS) data store - Windows Server Tutorial

From the course: Windows Server 2012 Active Directory: File System and Storage

Storage optimization: Network File System (NFS) data store

- If you're in a mixed environment where you have non-Microsoft operating systems along side your Microsoft servers, you may have to setup a situation so you can share resources between your Microsoft operating systems or your Microsoft file servers and let's say a UNIX box, or a Red Hat box, or a Linux box. In Server 2012 that feature will be referred to as a network file system data store or an NFS data store for short. What an NFS data store allows us to do is install a role that's part of the file services role on my 2012 file server. I can then setup permissions and privileges for users that are operating on a UNIX box, or a Linux box, or a Red Hat box to be able to access resources or shared resources that are on my 2012 server. To configure it's actually quite simple. If I bring up my Server Manager and I come in under manage I'm going to add a role or feature, come down to next. It's gonna be a role-based or feature-based installation, next. We're going to do it on the server…

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