Questions tagged with Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
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Does AWS scan the FSx filesystem for malware? If not, what is the recommended method of scanning the FSx filesystem for malware files uploaded to the shares?
Should we map a drive to the fsx file system from a windows server and then scan the drive?
Any other ways to do this? Thanks.
I am attempting to use the recommended cloud formation template to create a custom backup schedule for fsx.
I am following the documentation to use the recommended cloud formation template using these steps:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/fsx/latest/WindowsGuide/custom-backup-schedule.html
The template if failing to create with error:
The following resource(s) failed to create: \[BackupManager]. . Rollback requested by user.
16:36:59 UTC-0500 CREATE_FAILED AWS::Lambda::Function BackupManager Error occurred while GetObject. S3 Error Code: PermanentRedirect. S3 Error Message: The bucket is in this region: us-east-1. Please use this region to retry the request (Service: AWSLambdaInternal; Status Code: 400; Error Code: InvalidParameterValueException; Request ID: 4ddde0bd-41ea-11e9-81a0-9ff5109c54de)
Looks like it is failing because the cloud formation template is in us-east-2 but it is attempting to access a bucket in east-1.
How do I fix this? I do not see any settings in the cloud formation template to change the bucket to us-east-2.
Anyone have any advice?
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone could provide some guidance. I've got a share built in us-east-1. There is a trust between my on prem domain and the managed ad fsx is joined to. The "Everyone" group and my specific user account from the on prem domain have full permissions on the share. According to this post, it seems the share should be accessible via VPN: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/amazon-fsx-for-windows-file-server-now-supports-on-premises-access/
However, when I attempt to connect to the share from an on prem machine in the trusted domain with my user account, I receive the following error message
"windows cannot access \\filesystemid.managedad.com\share Check the spelling of the name. Otherwise there might be a problem with your network..."
There's no issue with network connectivity, VPN is up, routes are there, SGs are allow all from the on prem subnet, NACLs are allow all inbound and outbound, host based firewalls are off and network based firewalls are allow all outbound, I can resolve host names in the managed ad via my on prem forwarder (including the IP of the filesystem), I can ping and rdp into stuff in the same subnet, heck even my VPC flow logs for the FSX network interface show Accepts from my on prem host to the fsx eni on ports 445, 139, and 120.
Despite all this, I get the above error when attempting to use the share, and I cannot telnet to the IP of the share on port 445 from my on prem machine. Telnet to the same port and IP from within the subnet works. Again, there is nothing but Accepts in my flow logs. It seems like it has to be fsx dropping the traffic? What am I missing?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
On February 14, 2019 it was reported that FSx provides support for CloudFormation but I can not find the resource in the cloud formation designer. I tried it with the following regions : Northern Virginia, Ohio and Oregon.
If someone could find the resource, I will really appreciate your help.
Hi guys we are using FSX from some week and we feel the lack of a monitor where we can see how much Throughput we are using at the moment(such as dynamoDB metrics charts) and based on this the ability to scale it up .
Thanks for the answers.
On the following thread, it says that AWS Directory Service (Microsoft AD) can be used for DFS Replication.
https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=244580
Nowhere in the documentation does this get mentioned for FSx. Can we use it for FSx, or must be have a Windows server for this purpose?
Thanks,
Paul.
Hello,
Our company is looking to move our environment to AWS GovCloud this year and I'm working on verifying that all the features and configurations will work when we move. Currently we use DFS to sync files between Windows servers but I'd like to evaluate FSx to replace DFS.
When will you have FSx available in GovCloud? How about N. California? I will use Oregon to do the evaluation and tests but we are located in California and would like to see our environment closer to us. Thanks.
How do I access Freespace/usedspace/totalspace stats on my FSx filesystem? I do not see a way to do this with the console or powershell.