Grants permission to access shares that an NFS server exports.
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Microsoft NFS reference: Grants permission to access shares that an NFS server exports. The syntax and selected example below are adapted from the pinned Windows Server 2025 reference. Module availability, target configuration and delegated permissions determine whether it can run in your environment. Documentation and parameter text: Microsoft, CC BY 4.0; formatting adapted by Cmdlet World. No execution testing is claimed.
Use an account with the target resource permissions documented for Grant-NfsSharePermission. Modifying administrative cmdlets may require elevation or delegated administration. This catalog does not assert that ordinary users can execute the command.
Supported environments
Windows / NFS · Windows Server 2025 documentation; feature/module prerequisites apply
Parameters
-AllowRootAccess
Specifies whether to grant the UNIX root user access to an NFS share.
-AsJob
Indicates that this cmdlet runs the command as a background job on a remote computer. Use this parameter to run commands that take an extensive time to finish. When you use the *AsJob* parameter, the command returns an object that represents the job, and then displays the command prompt. You can continue to work in the session while the job finishes. To manage the job, use the Job cmdlets. To get the job results, use the Receive-Job cmdlet. The *AsJob* parameter resembles using the Invoke-Command cmdlet to run a Start-Job command remotely. However, with *AsJob*, the job is created on the local computer, even though the job runs on a remote computer, and the results of the remote job are automatically returned to the local computer. For more information about Windows PowerShell background jobs, see about_Jobs and about_Remote_Jobs.
-CimSession
Runs the cmdlet in a remote session or on a remote computer. Enter a computer name or a session object, such as the output of a New-CimSession or Get-CimSession cmdlet. The default is the current session on the local computer.
-ClientName (required)
Specifies a client name. The client name can be a host name or IP address, netgroup name, or client group name. To specify the type of client, use the *ClientType* parameter.
-ClientType (required)
Specifies a client type. Use the builtin client type only when the *ClientName* parameter value is All Machines. Valid values are: - host - clientgroup - netgroup - builtin
-Confirm
Prompts you for confirmation before running the cmdlet.
-LanguageEncoding
Specifies the type of language encoding used for access permissions configured on an NFS share. You can use only one of the following values for a share: - euc-jp (Japanese) - euc-tw (Chinese) - euc-kr (Korean) - shift-jis (Japanese) - big5 (Chinese) - ksc5601 (Korean) - gb2312-80 (Simplified Chinese) - ansi
-Name (required)
Specifies the name of an NFS share.
-NetworkName
Specifies the scoped network name of an NFS share. On a local share, *NetworkName* is the host name. On a cluster, it is the network name in the resource group to which the share is scoped.
-Path (required)
Specifies the path of an NFS share.
-Permission
Specifies the type of access to grant for an NFS share. Valid values are: - no-access - readonly - readwrite
-ThrottleLimit
Specifies the maximum number of concurrent operations that can be established to run the cmdlet. If this parameter is omitted or a value of 0 is entered, then Windows PowerShell® calculates an optimum throttle limit for the cmdlet based on the number of CIM cmdlets that are running on the computer. The throttle limit applies only to the current cmdlet, not to the session or to the computer.
-WhatIf
Shows what would happen if the cmdlet runs. The cmdlet is not run.
Prerequisites
Windows with the NFS module and the Windows feature or management tools that provide it. Confirm target connectivity and version compatibility using the linked Microsoft reference.
Security considerations
This cmdlet changes system state. Review every target and parameter in the official reference, test outside production, and prepare an appropriate backup or rollback. Do not execute the example automatically.
Examples
Example 1: Grant NFS share permissions to a specified client computer
This command grants read/write access to a share named Export for a computer named contoso-fs. Source: Microsoft, CC BY 4.0; transcript prompt/output removed. This example was not executed.