You probably need to tell the machine to speak the same version of NFS - Linux does v3 by default, and OSOL does v4 by default.
Yes, the uid's do matter, precisely because NFS means Network File System - it's like connecting a disk over the network wire. On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> wrote: > Blake <blake.irvin at gmail.com> writes: > >> Bear in mind that the user id numbers (check with 'id username') need >> to be the same on client/host > > Thanks... I tried that out. I choose to make the match by changing the > uid on the osol box since the linux box would have involved a > trainload of files the `chown'. Even recursivly would have been a > major chore and all over the os too. > > So anyway I changed the osol users uid to 1000 matching the linux user > uid. > > It caused something of mess on the osol box but finally got everything > changed over to uid 1000 for my user. > > Trying the mount that way is a total failure anyway. > > ?mount -F nfs reader:/pub /pub > ?nfs mount: insufficient privileges > > On osol box > > ?reader > uname > ?SunOS > > ?reader > id reader > ?uid=1000(reader) gid=10(staff) groups=10(staff),3(sys),4(adm),15(wheel) > > > On linux box > > ?reader > uname > ?Linux > > ?reader > id reader > ?uid=1000(reader) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),10(wheel)[...] > > > Do the gids also have to match? ?And will changing this stuff for the > osol user cause some other nasty problems.. (I mean besides tracking > down all the files and changing gid on them) > > And anyway this seems a little off the wall. ?I mean nfs is supposed to > be a way to share a fs between many machines, surely its not expected > the uid and gids will all match. > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-help mailing list > opensolaris-help at opensolaris.org >
