NFS UID Problem

[Ari Moisio]

Hi!

  Try these optionsin file /etc/exports at server side:

all_squash makes all user appear as nobody at server side.

or

map_static lets you define each uid pairs in server and client side.

HTH



-- 
arimo

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Janina Sajka wrote:

> I'm trying to allow an ordinary user to nfs mount a remote directory. I
> have no problem getting mount to work for this user, but there's a
> problem afterwards. The user can't write into the NFS mounted directory
> even though it's mounted rw. It seems that the problem may be that this
> user has a different UID on each machine.
>
> If I add a uid=XXX to the entry in /etc/fstab mount refuses to work.
>
> Any advice much appreciated.
>
>