IT Troubles - How to map NFS drive on Windows server

We spent plenty of time to properly mount NFS share on our Windows based servers. We are using NFS for IBM FileViewer and Conversion server for IBM Connections and also for IBM Domino servers. And finally we did it! Anyway, I guess, that following guide is usefull for everyone :)

Preparation:

Configure NFS server

Install FS-NFS-Service on Microsoft Windows server

Configure AnonymousGID and AnonymousUID 

Procedure:
Create script to map the drives. e.g. mount.ps1

For each drive use following command:

New-PSDrive -Name "X" -PSProvider FileSystem - Root "\\nfs_server_host_or_ip\nfs_path" -Persist

where:

X is mapped drive letter

nfs_server_host_or_ip ... is clear, right?

nfs_path .. is also clear

example:

New-PSDrive -name "G" -PSProvider FileSystem -Root "\\192.168.1.1\nfsvolume" -Persist

Create new scheduled task:

• For running use SYSTEM account (on General tab, click on "Change User and Group" then click on "Advanced", "Find Now" and select user "SYSTEM" ... Ok, Ok, Ok)

• As a trigger set "At system startup"
• Under Action tab run powershell and as a parameter "-file mount.ps1"

And restart Windows server :)

Remarks:

• All services which are accessing the NFS drive must be running under local system account
• If you try to execute New-PSDrive manually under an user account, the services above won't be able to access the drive (you must run powershell under system account - download PSTools from http://www.sysinternals.com and start powershell using command: PSExec.exe /SID PowerShell.exe - then it will work)
• To remove the drives use Remove-PSDrive X command
• The icons for the drives will have red cross over them... anyway it works! :)