Mounting the NFS share on FreeNAS from Windows Server 2016

[macosxgeek]

Hi @ll,

I'm trying to mount NFS share on FreeNAS server I have. Basically I've enabled NFS server on the Windows Server 2016 machine I'm trying to use as target.

When I run:

showmount -e 10.10.7.11

I can see the NFS share:

Exports list on 10.10.7.11: /NFSshare Everyone

So it's 'visible' from my server. I've also tried to mount it from Ubuntu VM I'm using for testing - and it works perfectly fine:

mount 10.10.7.11:/NFSshare /home/macosxgeek/NFS
mount
10.10.7.11:/NFSshare on /home/macosxgeek/NFS type nfs (rw,relatime,vers=3,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=10.10.7.11,mountvers=3,mountport=2049,mountproto=udp,local_lock=none,addr=10.10.7.11)

All good here. Unfortunately on FreeNAS server all 'mount' commands I'm executing are getting stuck in STAT: D (uninterruptible wait) state. For example:

root 6247 0.0 0.0 30388 1404 0- D 5:48PM 0:02.11 mount_nfs -o soft 10.10.7.11:/NFSshare /mnt/raid10/NFS_Backups root 7676 0.0 0.0 30388 1412 1 D+ 6:18PM 0:02.09 /sbin/mount_nfs -o rsize=32768 -o wsize=32768 -o intr 10.10.7.11:/NFSshare /mnt/raid10/NFS_Backups root 8103 0.0 0.0 30388 1408 3- D 6:26PM 0:02.62 mount_nfs -o nfsv3 -o nolockd 10.10.7.11:/NFSshare /mnt/raid10/NFS_Backups

I cannot kill them or interrupt them in any way. They stay there forever - until I reboot the FreeNAS server.

I've added the following lines to /etc/rc.conf -->

portmap_enable="YES" nfs_client_enable="YES"

And ran:

service nfsclient start

But still no joy. Can I ask if there is a way of mounting NFS shares on FreeNAS somehow? Any help would be appreciated.

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Best regards
macosxgeek

 

[garm]

Why do you link storage to a NAS?

 

[macosxgeek]

Why do you link storage to a NAS?

Mainly because I want to backup stuff stored on the NAS. My FreeNAS server is just a container for data. I want to backup some of this data to the other server I have - which is the proper backup server (running Windows Server 2016 and Veeam Backup and Replication).

 

[Redcoat]

Sounds like a job for rsync.

 

[macosxgeek]

Sounds like a job for rsync.

Well.. Don't get me wrong but setting up NFS on Windows Server was a little nightmare on itself.. I have a strange suspicion that setting up rsync on it would be a pure hell.. ;)

So if the NFS is not an option I might try 'crashplan' (it's one of the plugins) - or simply do FTP and put into cron.

Thank you anyway!

 

[garm]

You set up rsync on FreeNAS to push data to your Win server