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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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 …
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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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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If you are looking to transfer your data from on-premise NAS shares to S3, and want to use native NFS/SMB protocols for the data transfer to S3, you can use AWS File Gateway. You can also mount the NFS/SMB shares as path/drives on your backup applications (like Veeam etc) to take backup of on-premise data …
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