Hey thought to blog this to help some of the patrons who are facing issues while mounting NFS fileshare on their windows servers/desktops.

Note: Only Windows 7/8/8.1 Enterprise editions have “Services for NFS” in Turn Windows Features on/off settings.

In Windows Server 2008/R2/2012/R2 editions you have to enable Client for NFS feature to get this issue fixed/to mount NFS fileshares in windows OS. Follow below steps to get this fixed.

NFS Fileshare Error

 

 

 

 

 

 

To mount NFS fileshare, you can either use net use command or mount command. “mount” command works only if NFS client is installed 🙂

Server Manager

 

 

 

Launch Server Manager to install NFS client features.

Turn NFS Client Feature

Install NFS Feature

Install Success

NFS mount Success

Once Client for NFS is installed, the command works instantly without any reboots.

Let me know if you have any questions/issues getting NFS work.