Re: NFS Question

[Herbie <technowombat@yahoo.com>]

The easiest thing to do is just to sync the users between the two 
machines, if there's a small number <20 actual users, do it by hand, 
change the UIDs on one machine to match the other (make users common to 
both machines have the same UID on each machine, make sure no UID is given 
to one user on one machine, and another user on the other), then chown the 
homedirs so they are still owned by the appropriate people.

For a large amount of users, you are talking something like nss-ldap and 
pam-ldap to keep a common set of users.

Personal opinion, do with it what you will.

herbie

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Alan wrote:

> Tim,
> Try looking at the section "User ID Mapping Options" in this document.
> You can do UID sqashing.  I wouldn't recommend unless this is a small
> private network though.
>
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/nfs.htm
>
> Alan
>
> On 4/24/06, Tim McDonough <tim@mcdonough.net> wrote:
>> I have two Linux machines. One (machine B) has /home exported with NFS
>> and the other (machine A) mounts it on /mnt/home. No problems with
>> seeing files, reading/writing, etc.
>>
>> When I'm logged into machine A and look at a directory...
>>
>> ls -l /mnt/home
>>
>> ...the owner and group for files on machine B are displayed as being
>> owned by users and groups that do not exist on machine B. They show up
>> as being owned by users with accounts on machine A.
>>
>> I imagine this is because of some internal table that has valid
>> numbers on both machines but which are associated with different
>> names. Is there any way to have the user and group appear correctly?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
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