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 create a NFS or SMB file share using AWS file gateway, sometimes the file share may go into Unavailable status. To use the file share, you would need the file share in Available status. In this post, I will describe some scenarios and troubleshooting steps to resolve when file share is in Unavailable …
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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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You can use S3 bucket from a different AWS account than the AWS account where your file gateway is deployed. For example, your file gateway and file share can be in Account A and you can use S3 bucket and KMS key in AWS Account B. In this post, let’s look into the steps to …
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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When using SMB share with Active Directory authentication on File Gateway, sometimes you may get System Error 5 – Access is Denied. There could be a few reasons why you may get this error. In this article, we will go through couple of them. One of the general reasons you get this error is mismatch …
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You can activate a AWS storage gateway to three endpoint types 1) Public 2) VPC 3) FIPS In this post, we will go through the below steps and activate to VPC endpoint using AWS CLI. Interface VPC endpoint provides PrivateLink and enables private access to Storage Gateway and S3 services. In this post, we will …
When you first create the file share, the default UID/GID for the pre-existing objects in S3 bucket would be 65534:65534 which is nfsnobody:nfsnobody. You may want to change the ownership and assign specific UID/GID for these existing files through file gateway NFS file share. When doing chown to change default UID/GID, you can get operation …
Before mapping the NFS share, you would need to add NFS client for Windows feature. You can install Client for NFS on Windows either through Server Manager or PowerShell command. Using Server Manager:1) Go to Server Manager and select Add roles and features 2) Select Next in below Before You Begin: 3 . Select Next …
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