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From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] NFS and user IDs
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2018 11:16:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49311321.hBmYyI8WRt@eve> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180609044256.4c55jgzlk3vby36k@matica.foolinux.mooo.com>

On Saturday, June 9, 2018 6:42:56 AM CEST Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> Is there _any_ way around the need to keep the user IDs matched on NFS
> clients and servers?

Not to my knowledge.
I use OpenLDAP for my users and groups and this has worked perfectly ever 
since I implemented it.

> Or, is there any other remote filesystem (other than the one originally
> made by Microsoft) that avoids that chore?

I am only familiar with CIFS/SMB and NFS. Not sure if any other shared 
filesystems handle this. A minimum requirement would be that you need to login 
to the fileserver using a username and password.

> This is the main reason I have mostly stayed away from NFS all these
> years.  Recently sshfs has been a good enough substitute, but now it's
> proving not reliable enough for long term connections.

I found NFS to be stable for long term (months) connections. When working from 
mobile machines (Laptops), I use SMB/CIFS to access the same files.

--
Joost




  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-06-09  9:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-09  4:42 [gentoo-user] NFS and user IDs Ian Zimmerman
2018-06-09  7:27 ` Wols Lists
2018-06-09  7:41 ` Andrew Udvare
2018-06-09  8:46   ` dsonck
2018-06-09  9:16 ` J. Roeleveld [this message]
2018-06-09 13:20 ` Tom H
2018-06-09 20:44   ` J. Roeleveld
2018-06-09 16:34 ` Grant Taylor
2018-06-09 17:09   ` Rich Freeman
2018-06-09 20:31     ` Wol's lists
2018-06-09 22:09       ` Rich Freeman
2018-06-11  8:54       ` Joerg Schilling
2018-06-11 17:33         ` Wols Lists
2018-06-12  8:44           ` Joerg Schilling
2018-06-12 11:12             ` Wols Lists

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