Questions tagged with Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
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[Transfer Family](https://aws.amazon.com/aws-transfer-family/) supports S3 and EFS storage targets, but a project's requirement specifies up/downloaded files be available to Windows EC2 instances via SMB (specifically a [FSx](https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/) share). I would let the EC2 instances mount the EFS volume used by Transfer Family, but [Microsoft](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/nfs/nfs-overview) says Windows NFS clients can only use NFSv2 or NFSv3.
Since Transfer Family doesn't [natively](https://aws.amazon.com/aws-transfer-family/features/#Data_stored_natively_in_AWS_Storage_services) support FSx, is [DataSync](https://aws.amazon.com/datasync/) “between AWS storage services” the best way to support this workflow?
As an added twist, we'll probably need to support both uploads (items that arrived via SFTP, consumed by the EC2 instances) and downloads (EC2 instance outputs a file, which will then be fetched by a remote user via SFTP) so we'll need to have [bidirectional](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/datasync/latest/userguide/other-use-cases.html#opposite-direction-tasks) DataSync between the EFS and FSx volumes.
asked 6 months ago
I've got several FSX shares working already and I'm just looking to add another one and for some reason, no matter what I get the error "Error 53: The network path was not found" when I try to create a new share using fsmgmt.msc. If I browse to the network share from file explorer, I'm able to browse to it and as expected it shows no shares. However, when I try to create a new share and I right click on "shares" I eventually get a dialog with the above error message.
The share is on a private VPC along with all the other shares but anything new I try to create, fails with the above area.
After adding an FSX for window service I can connect to it via the fsmgmt.msc, I can change file security but get an error stating "Changes cannot be saved. This shared resource does not exist. " . We are using AWS managed AD. Any help would be appreciated.
I have 3 windows workspaces, Can I create a single storage volume for all those workspaces ?
I see numerous references to an FSX CLI but I cannot find any links or information on where to download the Powershell module. I find a module on the Powershell Gallery website (AWS.Tools.FSx) related to FSx but that is part of the "AWS Tools for PowerShell" and that does not have the share management commands such as New-FSxSMBShare. Can someone please point me in the right direction to download the Amazon FSx CLI for remote management on PowerShell?
IHAC who is using FS and mounting it as an NFS drive on Linux EC2 (ECS), and using this setup for an AI/ML workload.
They have reported an issue where they have observed that the mount-point stops reflecting on the EC2 instances during random reboots or when scaled.
I found a PFR with a similar type of issue - [Link](https://aws-crm.lightning.force.com/lightning/r/Product_Feature_Request__c/a2v4z0000035Vl7AAE/view)
Do we know a workaround until this gets resolved by the product team?
Thanks
asked 8 months ago
Hi,
I'm trying to create a new FSx for windows file share through remote management. However, running the following cmd
```
invoke-command -credential $cred -ComputerName fsx.example.aws -ConfigurationName FsxRemoteAdmin -scriptblock {New-FSxSmbShare -Credential $using:cred -Name "myshare" -Path "D:\myshare" -Description "FSx Windows file share" -FolderEnumerationMode AccessBased -Confirm:$false}
```
returns the following error:
```
You can only create shares on the D: drive; if specifying a folder, the folder must already exist on the D: drive.
At line:1 char:1
+ invoke-command -credential $cred -ComputerName fsx.example.aws ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : OperationStopped: (You can only cr...n the D: drive.:String) [], RuntimeException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : You can only create shares on the D: drive; if specifying a folder, the folder must already exist on the D: drive.
```
It seems that the first step should be create a folder on the remote file system. However, the commands provided by `Get-Command` does not contain `New-Item` to create this folder. What is the correct procedure to create a new file share with FSx remote management cli? Thanks!
asked 8 months ago
Dear Team,
I am trying to deploy the fsx file share for multi-az but it is failing with an error as below
Failure message
File system creation failed. Amazon FSx is unable to create a file system within the specified Microsoft Active Directory.
I deployed single-az and it created successfully with all the same parameters. That means all the parameters for deploying the file share is correct. Kindly advise on the issue.
Thanks
Rio
Hi, I have been using this ([Build a Cloud Sync Engine](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/cfapi/build-a-cloud-file-sync-engine)) documentation to build a Cloud Sync Engine, Is there any possibility to Sync the Data from the AWS as like OneDrive did,
We are already have users data in S3 bucket, I'm planning to sync them with this, Like the Folders and Files that are in the user's account, I'm planning to display them in the cloud sync folder like this,
Kindly suggest me a way to integrate the AWS with the cloud sync engine Any suggestions would be helpful! Thanks for your time.
We have an AWS FSX file system that is part of a domain. We have few Windows EC2 instances out of which some are part of same domain as FSX and some are not joined to the domain. Is it possible to access AWS FSX from the Windows EC2 machine that are not joined to the domain?
I am looking for how many IOPS provided by AWS to an FSx server when it is provisioned with 2TB of storage capacity HDD and 128MB/s. Can anyone help me find this value, my next step is to compare this value with the total Read/Write operations hits in the cloudWach to see if our FSx server is overloaded as we are experiencing slowness on service and we have no banthwith issues with our network. I don't know if we've reached the IOPS max value provided by the server.
I'm wondering is this even possible and how it should be configured? Do you have some ideas?
I know how i will trigger that lambda function but I'm not sure for the rest.