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5. Click OK two times.

8.6.10.3.Enable file and printer sharing for administration tools

On the computer hosting the Microsoft Services for NFS snap-in and Microsoft Services for NFS command-line tools, you must enable file and printer sharing in Windows Firewall.

To enable file and printer sharing:

1.On a computer running Microsoft Services for NFS, click Start, click Run, type firewall.cpl, and then click OK.

2.Click the Exceptions tab, select the File and Printer Sharing check box, and then click OK.

3.Repeat these steps on each computer running Microsoft Services for NFS.

8.6.11. Testing your deployment

Now that everything is set up, you can test your deployment to verify its functionality. The following are some suggested basic tests.

8.6.11.1.Test 1: On the computer running Client for NFS, map a drive letter to a UNIX-based NFS shared resource.

The test is successful if you can map the drive and view the test file on the NFS shared resource from the computer running Client for NFS.

To map a drive letter to a UNIX-based NFS shared resource:

1.On a UNIX-based server running NFS software, create an NFS shared resource. Create a test file on the shared resource.

2.Log on to the computer running Windows Server™ 2003 R2 and Client for NFS with one of the Windows user accounts that you created for this test.

3.Open Windows Explorer (My Computer) and on the Tools menu, click Map Network Drive.

4.Type either the UNIX-style server and shared resource name (hostname://sharedresourcename) or the Universal Naming Convention (UNC) path of the NFS shared resource on the UNIX file server, and then click OK.

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