Configuring Active Directory Lookup for UNIX GID and UID Information

So that NTFS permissions can be properly mapped to UNIX user accounts, integration with Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) must be set up between AD DS and UNIX. This requires the proper schema extensions to be enabled in the domain. By default, Windows Server 2012 AD DS includes these schema extensions. If installing Services for NFS into a down-level schema version of AD, such as with Windows Server 2003, the schema must be extended first to Windows Server 2012 levels.

To enable AD DS lookup for Services for NFS, do the following:

1. Open Server Manager, select Tools and then select Services for Network File System.

2. Right-click the Services for NFS node in the node ...

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