begin Shawn P. Neugebauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sunday 02 March 2003 09:20 am, Rod Roark wrote: > > Anyone know if there's a way to map user IDs (other than > > root) across NFS? > > > > I.e., user "rod" on the client machine has ID 1000, but on > > the NFS server is 500, and I'd like general access to my > > home directory from the client. > > The simplest solution is to use the same UID when you configure > the 2nd machine. For a small network, it is generally not hard to change > the UID's to match--but you need to find a few odds-and-ends > (e.g., /var/spool/mail). There was a recent thread on vox-tech about > the dual problem of changing username. It's an easy mistake, on a small > network, to end up with machines having different UID's--it's not > something one usually thinks about on a small network. > > The more general solution is to run NIS. Then you don't have > a UID hard-coded on a machine, you get it from the NIS server. > It's not hard to get NIS running for a small network, but there's > a little bit of a learning curve. You would still need to "retro-fit" > your filesystems to get all the UID's to match-up. snip
just out of curiosity, have you (or anyone) got NIS to work? i spent a couple of hours at it, and never really got it to function. i might take another stab at it if i knew there were people i could ask questions to. :) pete _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
