Using Hummingbird NFS products with Terminal Server (190163)

SUMMARY

Hummingbird Communications Ltd. ships two network file system (NFS) products, the NFS Maestro Client for Windows NT, and NFS Maestro Gateway. The NFS Maestro Client for Windows NT should not be installed on Windows NT Terminal Server. However, you can use NFS Maestro Gateway on a Terminal Server.

NFS Maestro Client for Windows NT

The NFS Maestro Client is not a multi-user application. If it is installed on a Terminal Server, the NFS client will fail for all but the first user. For example, the first user to NFS-mount drive K, where drive K is any free drive letter, to an NFS drive will be successful. When a second user attempts to mount ANY network drive to the same drive letter, drive K, that user receives an error that the drive is already in use. This occurs even though drive K does not appear to be mapped to anything for the second user.

NFS Maestro Gateway

You can install this application on Terminal Server. As with any application that is designed for multiple users, the application should be installed by the administrator at the Terminal Server console, with the server in Installation Mode. To make certain that the server is in Installation Mode, install the application through Control Panel Add/Remove Programs, or execute the line "change user /install" from the command prompt. When installed, the administrator would mount drives using the NFS Gateway Access program. These drives will be listed in My Computer for all users connecting to the Terminal Server, and they will be granted or denied access, based on their UID GID mapping to Windows NT User accounts.

The actual designed installation for the Gateway in this environment is to have a dedicated Windows NT Server, not a Terminal Server, located on the network. The Windows NT Server acts as the gateway allowing Terminal Server Clients to mount the NFS drives through Microsoft Networking.