You can mount both NFS and SMB file shares on macOS client. In this post, let’s look into the steps to mount NFS and SMB shares from file gateway on macOS client. Mounting NFS file share through GUI : Open Finder from the macOS client Dock, select Go and select Connect to Server. Then, enter …
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When you deploy AWS File Gateway in your on-premises environment or in your Amazon VPC, you may want to join the File Gateway to Active Directory (AD) domain. In this post, I will show how to use CLI, AWS management console to join the gateway to domain, and the prerequisites for File Gateway to your …
You can use SMB file shares with Amazon S3 using AWS File Gateway. You can use Guest authentication or Active Directory authentication. Using Active Directory authentication, you can control access to files/directories on the SMB shares using Windows Access Control List (ACL). In this post, let’s look into using Windows ACLs to manage the permissions. …
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With security vulnerabilities like CVE-2022-26925 using NTLM would open up relay attacks on the domain controllers (DC), so it is not recommended to use NTLM authentication for Windows clients to remote network shares like File Gateway SMB shares. You can use Kerberos authentication with Active Directory to mitigate the risks with NTLM. To use Kerberos, …
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