Can't mount CentOS NFS share on Windows 10 - "Network Error - 53"
Solution 1
On the Linux part - make sure your NFS Server Configuration is correct:
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nfs-utils and nfs-utils-lib should be installed
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rpcbind, nfs-server, nfs-lock, nfs-idmap should be enabled
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rpcbind, nfs-server, nfs-lock, nfs-idmap should be started
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Choose the directories you want to share
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make sure your user can access everything inside his directory
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get the
UID
andGID
of the user you plan to use -
get the IP address of your Windows 10 NFS client
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edit the exports file (etc/exports) and add the user you will use to it:
/home/user 192.168.1.2(rw,sync,root_squash,all_squash,anonuid=1001,anongid=1001)
- note: the IDs are the ones obtained previously -
restart the service with
systemctl restart nfs-server
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get the proper ports with
rpcinfo -p
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add them to the firewall
On the windows part:
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make sure you installed Client for NFS
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you now need to match the UID and GID that pulled earlier (1001 in the linux part example) on both the Server and the Client
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regedit to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ClientForNFS\CurrentVersion\Default
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You will need to make two new DWORD (32-bit) entries by right clicking inside the Default key. They should be named “AnonymousGid” and “AnonymousUid”. They should both have a decimal value matching your user’s GID and UID that you got earlier (1001 in the example)
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restart NFS service on the Windows 10 Client side by using :
nfsadmin client HOSTNAME config casesensitive=yes
nfsadmin client HOSTNAME stop
nfsadmin client HOSTNAME start
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finally, make your mount:
mount -o anon \\192.168.1.3\home\storage\ X:
You should get a successful mount message.
Solution 2
This solved it for me:
The NFS was running only under NFS v4 - adding v2/3 service to the Linux server solved the problem and I could mount the NFS.
Solution 3
In my case the firewall was causing this even though I had the ports 111, 2049 and 20048 allowed through. I just opened up the firewall completely between the two servers and it worked so I'm not sure which ports need to be opened.
I suspect following this advice to set static ports and then opening those up would also work: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1313682/set-static-ports-for-nfs-v3-on-ubuntu-20-x-server
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rst-2cv
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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rst-2cv almost 2 years
I have a CentOS 8 virtual machine (
192.168.10.203
) runningnfs-server
, and I'm trying to mount the share on my Windows 10 Pro x86_64 machine (192.168.10.10
) I have installed the "Services for NFS" Windows feature), but when I runmount \\<nfs_server_IP>\data N:
, I keep getting this error:Network Error - 53
Type 'NET HELPMSG 53' for more information.
The message for Network Error 53 is "The network path was not found" but I'm not sure what that means.
This is what my
/etc/exports
looks like on the CentOS machine:/data 192.168.10.0/24(rw,sync,root_squash,insecure,anonuid=0,anongid=0)
I've also tried with the bare-minimum options:
/data 192.168.10.0/24(rw,sync)
Both the CentOS and Windows 10 machines can ping each other.
I can connect to the NFS server on port 2049
Output of
rpcinfo -p localhost
run on the NFS machine:$ rpcinfo -p localhost program vers proto port service 100000 4 tcp 111 portmapper 100000 3 tcp 111 portmapper 100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper 100000 4 udp 111 portmapper 100000 3 udp 111 portmapper 100000 2 udp 111 portmapper 100024 1 udp 39181 status 100024 1 tcp 38357 status 100005 1 udp 20048 mountd 100005 1 tcp 20048 mountd 100005 2 udp 20048 mountd 100005 2 tcp 20048 mountd 100005 3 udp 20048 mountd 100005 3 tcp 20048 mountd 100003 3 tcp 2049 nfs 100003 4 tcp 2049 nfs 100227 3 tcp 2049 nfs_acl 100021 1 udp 53482 nlockmgr 100021 3 udp 53482 nlockmgr 100021 4 udp 53482 nlockmgr 100021 1 tcp 39197 nlockmgr 100021 3 tcp 39197 nlockmgr 100021 4 tcp 39197 nlockmgr
I have the
insecure
option in my/etc/exports
per "Network Error - 53" while trying to mount NFS share in Windows Server 2008 client. Didn't work.I've tried disabling the firewalls on both hosts with no results (
systemctl disable firewalld && iptables --flush
on the CentOS machine, and disabling both Windows Defender Firewalls (public and private network firewalls).Any ideas?
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Overmind over 4 yearsAre your machines on the same network segment ?
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rst-2cv over 4 yearsYes - edited the OP to reflect that
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Mircea Vutcovici over 4 yearsHow do you plan to use the mount? You could also use samba. Which version of NFS protocol are you planning to use: 3 or 4? Do you want to user kerberos auth, encryption?
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2ps over 4 yearsCould you please share the output of
showmount -e localhost
?
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rst-2cv over 4 yearsGood idea but no cigar. SELinux was set to enforcing (default), so I ran
sudo setenforce 0
but it didn't help. -
rst-2cv over 4 years
nfs-utils
is installed (according to this article,nfs-utils-lib
was rolled intonfs-utils
as of RHEL 7.6, and CentOS 7 made the change as well, which should mean CentOS 8 is the same, and explains why Infs-utils-lib
isn't found on my machine). -
rst-2cv over 4 yearsThis forum post suggests
nfs-lock
andnfs-idmap
are calledrpc-statd
andnfs-lockd
respectively.rpcbind
,nfs-server
,rpc-statd
, andnfs-idmapd
are all started and enabled where applicable (apparentlyrpc-statd
isn't supposed to beenabled
bysystemctl
). -
rst-2cv over 4 yearsI've chosen the directory I want to share. As for checking if my user can access it, how do I check if a Windows user accessing the share anonymously can access it without mounting the share?
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Overmind over 4 yearsYes, many services have different names or are different packages, including firewalld instead of the classic ip tables. Did you match the G/UIDs ?
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rst-2cv over 4 yearsI was going through your list and got distracted :) Stay tuned, there will be a few more comments
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rst-2cv over 4 yearsHere's my
/etc/exports
:/data 192.168.10.0/24(rw,sync,root_squash,all_squash,anonuid=1001,anongid=1001)
. I set theanonymousGid
andanonymousUid
to1001
in the Windows registry. Restarted thenfs-server
service. Firewall is disabled (iptables
flushed) on the NFS server for debugging purposes. -
rst-2cv over 4 yearsRan
nfsadmin client 192.168.10.203 config casesensitive=yes
, but got an errorFailed to connect to NFS WMI provider.
. In case this isn't a huge issue, I moved on and tried to stop the nfsclient, which failed with the same error message. Tried to mount anyway (mount -o anon \\192.168.10.203\data\ X:
); still got Network Error 53. I just don't understand what's going wrong. -
Overmind over 4 yearsLooks like you have a problem with your windows client-side NFS. You cannot mount if the NFS client is not working properly.
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Nisse about 4 yearsReally old question, but I am having the same problem. Might I ask how you added v2/3 support? I'm using Fedora 31, and it seems that all versions should be supported by default, making it hard to check if it really is.
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Xavi Montero about 3 yearsAnd the other way around? My server is v4 only and I can't change it. Any way to mount nfs v4 from windows?
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user959274 over 2 yearsThanks yagmoth555 for your post. I have been struggled with mounting a NFS shared folder on Windows 10 and keep getting the error 'Network Error - 53' for many days. By turning on the nfs server log, using 'rpcdebug -m nfsd -s all' and use 'journalctl -fl' to tail the nfs server log. I found out that the NFS server refused the mount request from the client ip address because of illegal port 62465. From your post, I got a hint to set UserReservedPost to 1 and this fixes my problem.