Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 13:39:18 -0500 From: Warren Killian <wkillian@ai.org> To: doc@FreeBSD.org, unfurl@FreeBSD.org Cc: gswallow@www.IN.gov Subject: NFS Section of On-Line Handbook Message-ID: <3B0C03D6.6526D435@ai.org>
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Hello FreeBSD.org, I'm a happy and content FreeBSD user of several years now. I want to point out a "potential" problem with the NFS section of the on-line Handbook on the FreeBSD web site. In the NFS section, you don't currently mention that your user ID and group ID (uid and gid) may need to be the same on both the server and the client. I followed the tutorial to the letter and was able to mount a partition on my FreeBSD box to a mount point on my Linux box. But I had read only access. After playing around with the configuration of both machines for several hours, a person more experienced than I pointed out that my uid and gid had to be the same on each machine before I'd be able to create and delete files on the server. I changed my uid and gid on my Linux box to match the uid and gid on my FreeBSD box and everything immediately worked great. I'm certainly no NFS expert. But if this business with uid/gid's is relevant, you probably should add it to the documentation. Thanks and keep up all the super work with FreeBSD. You guys ROCK! Warren Killian -- Thank you, Warren Killian Developer accessIndiana http://www.IN.gov 10 West Market St., Suite 600 Indianapolis, IN 46204 E-mail: wkillian@www.in.gov Phone: 317.233.2964 Fax: 317.233.2011 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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