Access to Windows-based file servers requires Windows user and group identities. However, NFS access is based on UNIX-style ...

Access to Windows-based file servers requires Windows user and group identities.  However, NFS access is based on UNIX-style user and group identities. To enable users to access NFS shares, you can set up an identity mapping solution.  Microsoft Services for NFS can retrieve identity mappings from Active Directory, if the schema includes the appropriate UNIX-style identities, as well as from a User Name Mapping server.