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What this guide will help you do: You will be able to access NFSv4 shares when logged onto a Linux client system with an Active Directory user account, your NFS traffic will no longer be clear-text and vulnerable to traffic snooping, both server and client will transparently verify each other’s ide...

NFS was originally designed for trusted environments of a scale that today seems rather modest. The primary design goal was data integrity, not performance, which makes sense as Ethernet of the time ran at 10 Mbps and files and file systems were relatively small. The integrity goal led to a use of s...