NFS UID Problem

Janina Sajka janina at rednote.net
Fri Feb 13 11:48:24 EST 2004


Ah, yes. I forgot to check man exports. This does look very promissing.
Thank you.

Ari Moisio writes:
> From: Ari Moisio <armoi at sci.fi>
> 
> 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.
> >
> >
> 
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