I'm trying to be a good gentoo netizen by nfs-sharing /usr/portage between my three local gentoo machines, and failing :(
After weeks of fiddling, I discovered today that my problems come from using a 32-bit machine to serve my two 64-bit NFS clients(!) (I'll mention up front that NFSv3 works perfectly -- only NFSv4 is bad.) For reasons I don't know, the 64-bit client machines mount the 32-bit NFSv4 share with UID/GID 0xffffffe, which won't let even root write to the rw share. I googled an old thread mentioning that 0xffff is decimal 65534, a UID traditionally assigned to the user 'nobody'. Can anyone else reproduce my problem, or give a hint how to work around it? (This list is so quiet today I'm wondering if gmane.org is down.)
