NFS mount on a Windows Server 2008 R2

[oliah]

I created a NFS export to /etc/log on my NetApp then mount this share on the Splunk Windows Server.

[monitor:///N:]

But the filer is not showing up in the dashboard. How can I troubleshoot this?
- Is there any special config to mount the NFS share?
- What are the credentials used to access to the NFS share?

[dwaddle]

Some things may be playing a part here.

1. It doesn't need to be an NFS mount necessarily, you could use CIFS (assuming your filers support CIFS and so on). Splunk just needs access to the /vol/vol0/etc/log on the filer. But, there may be other factors below that affect this negatively.
2. On my filers, there is a broken symbolic link in /vol/vol0/etc/log that points messages -> /etc/messages. Which is not correct. It should be messages -> ../messages. If I recreate this link properly, Netapp eventually breaks it. (This may play a dual-role in #1 above because I don't know if you mount it via CIFS if the symlinks will work at all)
3. Maybe [monitor://N:] ? The third slash there is (usually) for a unix absolute path. (But I'm not a Windows person so I may have this wrong)