On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Tom Haynes <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 04/19/10 11:16 AM, Shawn Webb wrote:
>
>> Ah! You're right. NFS is mapping my user to the nobody user. With both
>> boxes being set to the same domain (0xfeedface.org) via /etc/default/nfs,
>> shouldn't NFS map the user to the "shawn" account? Or is there some
>> configuration setting I'm missing?
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> I'm guessing that 192.168.2.6 is not properly in your name servers. I.e.,
> the fact that it has an IP and not a hostname.
>
> Does that also mean that you don't have NIS or LDAP running on it?
>


Right. I'm not running NIS or LDAP. I'm using my ISPs default DNS servers.
Should I create a zone and set up DNS and LDAP?


>
> If so, is "shawn" defined in /etc/passwd ?
>

Yes, shawn is defined in /etc/passwd on both boxes. In fact, both users on
both boxes have the same UID.


>
> I.e., if the server can not find a mapping for "[email protected]"
> via looking up "shawn", then it will use "nobody" as the owner.
>
> If "shawn" is a valid user, then see of snoop show the client
> sending [email protected] as the owner...
>
> snoop -o mount.scp shawn-desktop 192.168.2.6
>

I ran that snoop command, but it didn't really display anything. It just
displayed a number. The output:

sh...@sully:~$ pfexec snoop -o mount.scp shawn-desktop 192.168.2.6
Using device rge0 (promiscuous mode)
197 ^C



>
> should limit it to just those two machines.
>
> Then
>
> snoop -v -i mount.scp > xxx
>
> should give you human readable output. You can then look at the
> results.
>
>
>
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