NFS Error

Question

_{Tuesday, July 9, 2019 1:50 PM}

I have a windows server 2012 R2 that is used as a file server. I run DFS on it, and I have installed NFS server at some point in the past. I recently looked at adding a NFS share to the server, but when I open Shares under File and Storage Services to create the share I see a red banner stating servername: Error occurred during enumneration of NFS Shares: A general error occurred that is not covered by a more specific error code. If I ignore that and try and create an NFS share in the share wizard, I see an NFS share create error at the end of the process when I click create.

Any ideas where I can look for this ? I see nothing in the system events logs.

Regards

Tony

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_{Tuesday, July 9, 2019 2:52 PM}

Hello Tony,

Are you sure the Server for NFS role is still installed on the server?

PowerShell:

Get-WindowsFeature *NFS*

Server Manager:

You might want to try reinstalling it:

Get-WindowsFeature -Name "FS-NFS-Service" | Uninstall-WindowsFeature

Reboot and then re-install the Server for NFS role:

Install-WindowsFeature -Name "FS-NFS-Service"

Best regards,
Leon

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_{Tuesday, July 9, 2019 3:03 PM}

Hi Leon,

I forgot to say I had already tried removing the NFS server feature, rebooting, then readding, and rebooting.

I ran your command, output is

PS C:\Users\admin> Get-WindowsFeature *NFS*

Display Name                                            Name                       Install State
                                                                   
        [X] Server for NFS                              FS-NFS-Service                 Installed
[ ] Client for NFS                                      NFS-Client                     Available
            [X] Services for Network File System Man... RSAT-NFS-Admin                 Installed

Ge

Get-NfsShare : A general error occurred that is not covered by a more specific error code.
At line:1 char:1

• Get-NfsShare

    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (MSFT_NfsShare:root/Microsoft/Windows/NFS/MSFT_NfsShare) [Get-NfsShare], C
   imException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : MI RESULT 1,Get-NfsShare

t-NfsShare also reports

Regards

Tony

_{Tuesday, July 9, 2019 3:46 PM}

Do you have any old NFS shares that your server might not be able to show or that might be corrupted?

You can check in the Windows registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ServerForNFS\CurrentVersion\Exports\

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_{Tuesday, July 9, 2019 4:24 PM}

I checked your registry item, and that key only shows a default entry.

Thanks

_{Tuesday, July 9, 2019 4:38 PM}

Might try checking for any corruptions:

SFC /Scannow

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

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_{Tuesday, July 9, 2019 5:50 PM}

Hi Leon,

I did a detailed look at the event viewer logs and I found an item for the ServerNFS portmapper failing to start as the resource was unavailable. I then found a reference on Google to another service using port 111 which apparently serverNFS uses, found that, (Arcserve RPC), disabled that service and now NFS seems to be fine after a restart. I need to sort out this conflicting service and check if it's needed.

Thanks for your help

Tony

_{Tuesday, July 9, 2019 5:58 PM}

Great stuff!

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_{Thursday, July 11, 2019 9:42 AM}

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Michael

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