NFS / Windows - repeated mount request denied after succeeded

[sintax]

Freenas 9.2.1.1
ZFS vol: /mnt/bulk
ZFS Dataset: /mnt/bulk/media
NFS Share: /mnt/bulk/media/music

NFS shares are fine mounted to any of my linux boxes, attempted to mount up a share to a windows 2008r2 machine today and noticed some odd behavior, and unexpected slowness. I'm assuming its a windows client configuration / use error since everything works great in linux. I'm not too familiar with windows and NFS.

Executed the following mount command on the windows host

mount \\192.168.1.10\mnt\bulk\media\music x:

volume was mounted as expected, X: now shows as attached volume, able to browse around and functions, but when I noticed some slowness, i viewed the logs on the Freenas box and found the following getting flooded in there, every second. I'm not too sure why its trying to mount everything down the chain?

Apr 29 16:23:49 freenas mountd[2165]: mount request succeeded from 192.168.1.100 for /mnt/bulk/media
Apr 29 16:23:49 freenas mountd[2165]: mount request denied from 192.168.1.100 for /mnt/bulk
Apr 29 16:23:49 freenas mountd[2165]: mount request denied from 192.168.1.100 for /mnt
Apr 29 16:23:49 freenas mountd[2165]: mount request denied from 192.168.1.100 for /mnt/bulk
Apr 29 16:23:49 freenas mountd[2165]: mount request denied from 192.168.1.100 for /mnt/bulk
Apr 29 16:23:49 freenas mountd[2165]: mount request denied from 192.168.1.100 for /mnt
Apr 29 16:23:49 freenas mountd[2165]: mount request denied from 192.168.1.100 for /mnt/bulk

 

[leenux_tux]

sintax,

I know this does fix the specific issue you have and is a workaround, however, you could always share out the folder using CIFS as well ? Unless of course there is a specific reason why you need to access it via NFS from Windows. I have three folders that are shared via both CIFS and NFS (mixture of Windows and Linux systems) and it works very well.

 

[sintax]

Thanks for the reply.

Yes CIFS is always an option, and I will likely go down that road if I cant sort the issues out. Currently it works, but its just not that pretty. Another item i've noticed about Windows / NFS, is that you cant mount a NFS volume to an empty folder, only a drive letter. It might be possible but i've yet to find out how.