On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 10:54:48AM -0700, Bardia Behabadi wrote: > apparently an ident-server must be installed for proper nfs4 server > usage, i found this when setting up a clean install in the network. > the following error: > kernel: nfsd: nfsv4 idmapping failing: has idmapd not been started? > > which was resolved by installing the pidentd package, perhaps any > ident-server package will do. maybe it was just a coincidence that the > nfs4 exports started behaving properly after installing pidentd?
Yes, it's a coincidence; nfsd should not care about ident at all. Was idmapd started when this error message arrived? What does your /etc/exports look like? /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
