I wasn't really expecting it to just work out of the box, but NFS is surprisingly viable.

If you have two or more machines, you may wish to share disk space or devices, such as a CD drive, between machines. For this there is network filesystem (NFS), the easiest way of sharing files and ...

If thinking of NFS v4 puts a bad taste in your mouth, you are not alone. Or wrong. NFS v4.0 and v4.1 have had some valid, well-documented growing pains that include limited bandwidth and scalability.

This is regarding a file server on domain joined Windows Server 2016 with NFS shares set up. Permissions are for All Machines with read/write access. No server authentication is used. Allow unmapped ...