Re: Set UID and GID for NFS purposes (Solved)

[David Powell <moondrake@optusnet.com.au>]

Thanks for that advice Alexander and Robert - since I posted I
discovered the usermod and groupmod commands.  As this is a development
box for home, there's only one user (me) so it wasn't an onerous way to
fix the issue.  The commands I used were:

usermod -u <idnum> <username>
groupmod -g <idnum> <groupname>

It seems to have done the trick.  It was very late at night, but I think
I did also have to chown/chgrp -R the mounted NFS directory - which as
Robert suggests wouldn't be a lot of fun if you had many users.
Something to keep in mind for future reference.

If starting from scratch (without files/users set up) I guess you could
specify the uid/gid on each box when creating users...

Thanks again,

David Powell wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Just had great joy compiling my first kernel (!!) to get NFS working 
> only to find I'm stuck with what I thought should be an easy one.
>
> At the moment I can read all the files in my NFS mounted directory but I 
> can't edit them.  The owner and group of the files seems correct 
> (david/david on both machines) but when I "ls -l" the files in my 
> mounted directory on the client, I see 1002/1002 instead of david/david 
> (for user/group respectively).
>
> I read in a previous thread that for NFS the UID and GID needs to be 
> exactly the same - but how do I change this? Chmod chgrp etc don't seem 
> to do the trick...
>
> Should I just create a new user (I see in the adduser man page I can 
> specify a UID) and move all the files across?  Or is there an easier way?
>
> Ta,
>
> David

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