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You're reading from Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook If you work on a daily basis with Windows Server 2012, this book will make life easier by teaching you the skills to automate server tasks with PowerShell scripts, all delivered in recipe form for rapid implementation.

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849689465

Length 372 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Windows Server

Concepts

System Administration

Author (1):

EDRICK GOAD

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Understanding PowerShell Scripting

2. Managing Windows Network Services with PowerShell FREE CHAPTER

3. Managing IIS with PowerShell

4. Managing Hyper-V with PowerShell

5. Managing Storage with PowerShell

6. Managing Network Shares with PowerShell

7. Managing Windows Updates with PowerShell

8. Managing Printers with PowerShell

9. Troubleshooting Servers with PowerShell

10. Managing Performance with PowerShell

11. Inventorying Servers with PowerShell

12. Server Backup

Index

Mounting NFS exports

In addition to exporting shares using NFS, Windows can also mount NFS exports. Windows can access NFS exports from other Windows servers, as well as from Unix/Linux systems, making this an ideal technology for sharing files and data in heterogeneous environments.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will be accessing the NFS export shared in the prior Creating an NFS export recipe. We will be utilizing the default Kerberos authentication included with NFS.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps to mount the NFS export:

Install the NFS client:
```
Install-WindowsFeature NFS-Client 
```

Mount the NFS share using the \\serv er\share naming scheme:

New-PSDrive N -PSProvider FileSystem -Root \\corpdc1\NFS1

When executed, PowerShell confirms the connection was successful as shown in the following screenshot:

How it works...

In this recipe we start by installing the NFS-Client feature on the client computer. By default, this feature is not installed in Windows Server and must be installed...

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