Thanks but I’d already found that post last week.   That was the one that got 
me as far as mounting on a drive letter as before that I couldn’t even get that 
far.

The Symantec links posted by others in this thread suggest one has to give the 
login credentials to specific services instead.


From: John [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 12:17 PM
To: Lightner, Jeff
Cc: Auburn. Edu ([email protected])
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Automatic and Persistent share mount on Windows 2008 
R2?

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]<mailto:[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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