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Re: [OT] NFS question



> > On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 12:04:02AM -0500, Hall
> > Stevenson uttered:
> > > When they're not mounted, they're both owned by
> > > hall.users. When they're mounted, they're owned
> > > by amy.hall.
> > >
> > > amy and hall are both users on the system. The group
> > > "users" exists also and hall is a member of it.
> > >
> > What is happening here is, when mount points are exported
> > over NFS, NFS doesn't munge the UID/GID flags on the file.
> > So, when you ls the files, ls happily performs a UID
lookup on
> > it, which corresponds to a different user on the system
that
> > the filesystem is being exported to.
> >
>
> So what you would want is: same userID and same groupID on
server and
> clients

I can do that... actually, I think I may have already done
that. Haven't played with it in the past few days, so I can't
remember right now. I'll certainly check it and change it, if
needed though.

Hall



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