Ralf Corsepius wrote:
Your uids/gids seem out of sync between client and server, i.e. you need to synchronize your client's and server's uid/gid system (c.f. nsswitch.conf). I.e. you typically will have to synchonize /etc/passwd and /etc/groups and might want to add a network wide passwd/groups system, such as nis/yp.
Since you seem knowledgeable, and since this seems to be right up the alley for this thread, I'd like some advice... I do contract work at home. I have no real LAN, just one manchine. But when on occasion I need to go to the office which employs me we hook up. We do not have synchronized UIDs. I obviously don't want to use NIS at home (or do I?). Yet, when at their office, I can't just use NFS to transfer files from my machines to theirs. I have to use FTP in order to get the UID correct on their machine. They do not use NIS, they just keep the user names in synch manually. Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} This message made from 100% recycled bits. You have found the bank of Larn. I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you. I speak only for myself, and I am unanimous in that!