hi david... thanks for the reply.. your answer confirmed what i had started to think about. and yeah, you're right regarding only a few boxes for a home use.. however, i'm probably going to have 10-15 boxes running this app... but if the issue really boils down to the user/group id then i could essentially create a user with the same uid/gid on all boxes, or i could simply only allow files to be created and added to the nfs share by the machine that created the share... this whole process is for use in a Condor system, where each node will be performing some of the distributed applications. thanks -bruce -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of David G. Miller Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 6:12 AM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: nfs questions!!! Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 13:48 -0400, Thom Paine wrote: > >>> Do you have a user with the same name and password on both hosts? >> >> > >That's not how NFS works. You need to have the same user ID >(numerical), and that's it. The local box associates a user name and >password with local users. > >i.e. user 500 is use 500 on both boxes (unless you remap user IDs across >NFS). It doesn't matter whether use 500 is john on one and fred on the >other. And the passwords aren't compared, either. > >If you've set boxes up so that you end up being user 500 on one of them, >but 501 on another, you're different users on both. You've either got >to do some user ID remapping between boxes through NFS (I've no advice >on how to do that to give you), or you change users on one of the boxes >to match. > Actually, the preferred solution is to use NIS and have a single login to network resources. Using NIS allows the UIDs and GIDs to be administered on a single box. That being said, its somewhat overkill for home users and just making sure the UIDs and GIDs are the same on a couple of boxes isn't all that bad. Cheers, Dave -- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
