Hi Jeff,

I faced similar problem.
Just mapping the drives will not work. Shares get disconnected whenever there 
is a network outage. Finally CIFS was the only solution in our case.

Here is a work around...
Which I did not try. Just have a look. Looks like it needs a system account 
privilege , which uses sysinternals suite.

http://serverfault.com/questions/426288/permanently-mount-network-share-without-the-need-for-log-on-windows


John 


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On Aug 25, 2014, at 4:34 PM, "Lightner, Jeff" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have two data deduplication devices that do NAS style shares.   They can do 
> NFS or CIFS (or both at same time using different shares).     The NFS shares 
> have been there for quite some time and I successfully mount those to various 
> HP-UX and Linux servers with no issue.
>  
> We need to try to mount to a Windows 2008 R2 server.   Today I got as far as 
> being able to login to the Windows server and map the share to a drive letter 
> then verify I could read and write from it.  
>  
> The issue is that CIFS mount:
> a)      Is only available to the user I logged in as when I did the map on 
> the Windows side.   (This was also true when I had the Windows Admin do it 
> using the domain administrative account.)  
> b)      Is not available to the NetBackup services that were already started 
> automatically at boot.   It is these services that will be writing to and 
> reading from the mounts for backups.
>  
> So my question is how can I setup an automatic mount of a share in Windows at 
> boot AND insure that services started will have access to read and write to 
> it?
>  
> We did in fact try to enable NFS Services on the Windows server Friday but 
> for whatever reason it puked on doing that each time and forced a reboot.    
> If someone knows how to enable that on Windows 2008 R2 as well as how to make 
> a mount there persistent (similar to the way it would be if in fstab on 
> UNIX/Linux) I’d be happy to go that route instead.
>  
> Please don’t point me at links that “might address” this if you haven’t 
> already tried them and know they work.  After working most of last week on 
> this I’ve not found anything that really solves it in many web searches.
>  
>  
>  
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