AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Using Your File Share
share. These users and groups then have administrator rights to the file share. A group must be
prefixed with the @ character, for example
@group1
.
14. Review your file share configuration settings, and then choose
Create file share
.
After your SMB file share is created, you can see your file share settings in its
Details
tab.
The preceding procedure creates a Microsoft Active Directory file share. Anyone with domain credentials
can access this file share. To limit access to certain users and groups, see
.
Next Step
Mounting Your SMB File Share on Your Client (p. 52)
Using Your File Share
Following, you can find instructions about how to mount your file share on your client, use your share,
test your file gateway, and clean up resources as needed. For more information about supported
Network File System (NFS) clients, see
Supported NFS Clients for a File Gateway (p. 21)
. For more
information about supported Service Message Block (SMB) clients, see
Supported SMB Clients for a File
You can find example commands to mount your file share on the AWS Management Console. In
following sections, you can find details on how to mount your file share on your client, use your share,
test your file gateway, and clean up resources as needed.
Topics
•
Mounting Your NFS File Share on Your Client (p. 51)
•
Mounting Your SMB File Share on Your Client (p. 52)
•
Working with File Shares on a Bucket with Pre-exisiting Objects (p. 55)
•
Testing Your File Gateway (p. 55)
•
Where Do I Go from Here? (p. 56)
Mounting Your NFS File Share on Your Client
Now you mount your NFS file share on a drive on your client and map it to your Amazon S3 bucket.
To mount a file share and map it to an Amazon S3 bucket
1. If you are using a Microsoft Windows client, we recommend that you
and
access it using an SMB client that is already installed on Windows client. If you use NFS, turn on
Services for NFS in Windows.
2. Mount your NFS file share:
• For Linux clients, type the following command at the command prompt.
sudo mount -t nfs -o nolock,hard
[Your gateway VM IP address]
:/
[S3 bucket
name]
[mount path on your client]
• For MacOS clients, type the following command at the command prompt.
sudo mount_nfs -o vers=3,nolock,rwsize=65536,hard -v
[Your gateway VM IP
address]
:/
[S3 bucket name]
[mount path on your client]
• For Windows clients, type the following command at the command prompt.
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