Hi Thanos

Thanos A. wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have setup Openfiler 2.0-b1 to use an external LDAP directory server.
> Users and groups are correctly listed in their respective pages, however
>  the user/group type is shown as Unknown (is it a bug?).
>   

No it's not a bug.. the code to guess the user/group type as LDAP is
just not implemented yet. So as Openfiler doesn't know about it, it says
"Unknown".

> Besides, when I try to mount Openfiler NFS shares I get the following error
>
> mount: OpenfilerIP:/mnt/test failed, reason given by server: Permission
> denied
>
> and in /var/log/messages on the server where I'm trying to mount the
> share I get
>
> rpc.mountd: mount request from unknown host MYIP for /mnt/test (/mnt/test)
>
> I assume this issue is connected with user authentication (btw, how do I
> specify user details when I mount NFS shares ?).
>   

Are you mounting shares? You seem to be mounting the entire volume group
(/mnt/test) where I assume "test" is your volume group. Openfiler
obviously won't allow that. Access control is done on a per-share basis
and only shares are exported. Try mounting the share instead of the
entire volume group :)

You don't need to specify user details when you mount NFS shares. Your
effective uid/gid is used when you access files and directories. Both
your Openfiler server and client machines must use the same
user-directory server if you are using controlled access. Both boxes
should show the same uid/gids for users. If you are not familiar with
NFS, please read a howto. I also suggest the following O'Reilly book:

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/nfs/

Mukund


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