At Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:01:18 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > I have an issue that is not all that unique, so I'm hoping someone has > done it before. > > On the client end I have some very old RedHat based systems. On the > server end is a Windows 2008 system running NFS server software. The > clients mount the server resource as an NFS2 mount but some compliance > issues were discovered with the setup. For various reasons, updating > the client is not an option at this time. The fix the issue, the > server needs to export NFS3 mounts but the clients do not support that > version. As a workaround, I considered adding a third system running > CentOS that would mount the server and re-export it to the clients. > This will mitigate the current issue related to visibility of the > share from certain groups. > > It does not appear possible, using the current kernel-based NFS > server, to export an NFS-mounted filesystem. However, it appears that > there is a FUSE NFS project that might work. Does anyone have any > experience with such a setup? It really is NOT a good idea to re-export a network-mounted file system. Is there some reason you cannot simply migrate the data on the Windows 2008 server to a new CentOS system? Note that you can also install Samba on the new CentOS system, which will support any MS-Windows clients served by the Windows 2008 server. One possibity would be to install a virtual CentOS server on the Windows 2008 server and have it *replace* the NFS server running on the Windows 2008 server. You would need to map the file systems to be exported as local/virtual file systems on the virtual CentOS server. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- Get the Deepwoods Software FireFox Toolbar! Deepwoods Software -- Linux Installation and Administration http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Web Hosting, with CGI and Database heller at deepsoft.com -- Contract Programming: C/C++, Tcl/Tk