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

2009-07-28 Thread Alex Schuster
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.

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

2009-07-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
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

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

2009-07-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: On Tuesday 28 July 2009 09:39:40 Alex Schuster wrote: 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

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

2009-07-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 27 July 2009 03:18:34 Harry Putnam wrote: I'm not that familiar with nfs usage ... only used lightly a few times. I have an opensolaris nfs server serving a share to my gentoo box. The mount point is set as owner:group of my user (reader). Also has the set-gid bit set. ls -ld

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

2009-07-27 Thread Stroller
On 27 Jul 2009, at 02:18, Harry Putnam wrote: ... I have an opensolaris nfs server serving a share to my gentoo box. The mount point is set as owner:group of my user (reader). ... ls -ld /projects drwxr-sr-x 2 reader wheel 48 Jun 24 07:08 /projects ... When its mounted the permissions change

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

2009-07-27 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag 27 Juli 2009 03:18:34 schrieb Harry Putnam: I'm not that familiar with nfs usage ... only used lightly a few times. I have an opensolaris nfs server serving a share to my gentoo box. The mount point is set as owner:group of my user (reader). Also has the set-gid bit set. ls

[gentoo-user] [nfs] nfs mount settings

2009-07-26 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm not that familiar with nfs usage ... only used lightly a few times. I have an opensolaris nfs server serving a share to my gentoo box. The mount point is set as owner:group of my user (reader). Also has the set-gid bit set. ls -ld /projects drwxr-sr-x 2 reader wheel 48 Jun 24 07:08