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Getting Red X sign on mounted NFS volume from Windows client

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Windows NFS client is known not to handle multiple path NFS shares. The issue is by design and comes when the client is mounting an NFS share which is more than 26 characters in length. 

Users would be able to access the NFS shares after mounting it to a drive letter but a red X (disconnected) sign would be there on the mounted volume. The NFS mounted drives will be in connected state even if UI shows disconnect. 

The recommendation would be to have a single path nfs share like “\\servername\sharename” or a multipath NFS share having less than 25 characters.

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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Let me know how are you trying to mount the NFS share. What is the O/S version.

  • Anonymous
    June 16, 2013
    I'm mounting an NFS share that is named \192.168.1.111Shared and am still seeing it show up as disconnected. How do I fix this?