Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 21:23:08 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@mail.iowna.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS weirdness with SGI Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1010122211529.2651A-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3A6CBDA8.F0FCE301@mail.iowna.com>
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On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Bill Moran wrote: > I have some weirdness occurring with a couple of SGI workstations. The > server is FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE running as an NFS server. > > My /etc/exports file consists of one line: > /data/public -mapall=nobody:nobody > (machine is behind a firewall, so anyone who can connect is trusted) > > However, when a user logs in as root to the SGI station, he can > read/write all over the FreeBSD server with no problems, all files are > created as root:wheel (why group wheel?) > But if a normal user logs in to the SGI station, he can read but not > write the NFS export on FreeBSD. It seems like a permissions problem to > me. This sounds similar to a problem I had recently. When I would created files on an NFS-mounted filesystem, they would end up with the wrong owner and group. It turned out that I had users on both machines with the same User and group ID, but different names. For example - machine A has a user foo (1002:1002) while machine B has a user bar (1002:1002) and a user foo (1003:1003). When I was logged into A as foo, I would NFS-mount B but my files on B had owner/group bar instead of foo. This was with both machines running FreeBSD, BTW. Once I vipw'd things so the users/groups/usernames were consistent between the two machines, the problem went away. HTH. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy expunging <-> ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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