On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Gordon Messmer <yinyang at eburg.com> wrote: > On 07/13/2010 07:01 AM, Kwan Lowe wrote: >> 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. > > I'm not sure I can help, but I'm very curious. How old are these > systems, that they don't support NFSv3? And what kind of compliance > issues? I don't know of any security enhancements that were introduced > in NFSv3. It's a combination of some very old (RH2.1) systems and a rigid certification process. In short, once the machines are built it's very, very difficult to modify the setup. Not only are they only available by a satellite link on only certain days, but the systems are critical and don't have maintenance windows. Every few years they may get updated