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Re: nfs problem

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Come on folks!

Consider a modified Drake equation: (number on this list) * (date) * (% not hungover) * (% who understand NFS) * (% willing to help out a bewildered computer geek) == (surely > 0), no?

OK. Leave out (date) and (% not hungover), and tell me what I've done wrong...

> On Dec 31, 2015, at 4:56 PM, ghe <ghe@slsware.net> wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to get NFS going with a Wheezy server and a Jessie client using Webmin and vi. It connects, but mounts the directory and file with nobody:nogroup as the user:group (and nobody isn't set to universe read/write -- tried to do that, but NFS won't let me).
> 
> I see from the 'Net that this is a common problem, but the solutions seem to involve (some) files/programs that don't exist on these machines. Nor in Aptitude.
> 
> The UID:GID are identical on the server and the client, both numbers and text. I've tried both NFS4 and vanilla NFS. There seems to be no difference.
> 
> I changed the nobody name to myself (ghe) in /etc/idmapd.conf, and created a new user (gheqw). Now ls says the directory on the client is owned by gheqw:nogroup. That doesn't make any sense to me at all.
> 
> When I turn off the NFS mount at the server, the directory on the client goes back to being owned by me, and the file disappears (both expected behavior).
> 
> There are too many variables here: 2 computers, many files, and far too many [SOLVED] pages on the 'Net. I'm pretty sure I've made a mess in the config files (whichever they are). Anybody know exactly what to say, in which file(s) on which computer(s), to deal with this?
> 
> T much IA...
> 
> -- 
> Glenn English

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Glenn English

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nfs problem ghe <ghe@slsware.net> - 2016-01-01 01:10 +0100
  Re: nfs problem Glenn English <ghe@srv.slsware.net> - 2016-01-01 23:00 +0100
    Re: nfs problem Pier <pierg75@yahoo.it> - 2016-01-02 00:50 +0100
      Re: nfs problem Glenn English <ghe@srv.slsware.net> - 2016-01-02 18:40 +0100
    Re: nfs problem Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> - 2016-01-02 11:00 +0100
      Re: nfs problem Glenn English <ghe@srv.slsware.net> - 2016-01-02 18:30 +0100
        Re: nfs problem [FIXED?] ghe <ghe@slsware.net> - 2016-01-03 00:10 +0100
  Re: nfs problem Brandon Vincent <Brandon.Vincent@asu.edu> - 2016-01-01 23:20 +0100
    Re: nfs problem Glenn English <ghe@srv.slsware.net> - 2016-01-02 18:40 +0100

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