Re: NFS Question

[Alan <arainfor@gmail.com>]

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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