Re: [gentoo-user] [nfs] nfs mount settings

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 28 July 2009 09:39:40 Alex Schuster wrote:
> Alan McKinnon writes:
> > Golden rule with nfs:
> >
> > It was designed for the case of a diskless client mounts it's home or
> > root directories over the network, while exporting passwd and shadow
> > files over NIS. That is evident in it's design and there is no facility
> > to change uids and gids on the fly.
>
> man 5 exports (at least my localized german version) lists the map_daemon
> option, which allows mapping of UIDs / GIDs between server and client. This
> needs the rpc.ugidd to be running on server side.
> I never did this, I don't even know where to get rpc.ugidd from, and I'm
> pretty sure it won't work at all with opensolaris, but at least with linux
> it should be possible then, theoretically.
>
> 	Wonko

That's good to know - I don't have anything like that here in my man pages.

I have nfs-utils-1.2.0, what version are you running?

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