Mounting NFS share on Windows 10 with write access

Muhammad Jawaid Shamshad
Ibexoft
Published in
1 min readJul 4, 2018

It is easy to mount a drive from Linux NFS share on Windows 10 machine. To do that make sure you have NFS Client (Services for NFS) is installed from Programs and Features. Following is the command to mount the NFS drive. Note that this command will run on cmd (Command Prompt) and not on PowerShell.

mount \<IP_ADDRESS>\<PATH_TO_DIR>\ drive:

For example, if the IP address of the NFS share is 10.235.0.10 and the directory you want to share is /var/www and you want to mount it to your Z drive, then you can run the following command.

mount \\10.235.0.10\var\www z:

But when you mount the drive you can browse the files using your Windows Explorer but you cannot create new files nor edit any files. To get write access on NFS share you have to make a small change in Windows registry before mounting the drive. Follow the instructions defined here.

After that run the mount command and you will get the write access.

Originally published at Ibexoft

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Muhammad Jawaid Shamshad
Ibexoft

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