[NTLUG:Discuss] NFS ownership

[Greg Edwards]

Use NIS to share users across the network.


Greg Edwards
http://greg.edwards-tx.us


Ralph Green wrote:
> Howdy,
>    I ran across something with a file server I setup this week that I
> need a little help with.  I setup a file server and all of the clients
> are going to be Linux machines.  So, I thought sharing the directory
> as an NFS mount made sense.  I made and mounted the share and started
> rsync to copy data from the current local directory on the machine to
> the NFS mount.  I quickly hit a problem.  The files on the local
> directory are almost all owned by apache.  The NFS server does not
> have the apache user and so it told me the change of file onwership
> was invalid.  The fie server is running freenas 8.3, so it is BSD.  Is
> there some way to map users on the NFS mount?  Or, is there some other
> approach I should be taking?
>    I could put entries in paswd and shadow, I suppose, but that seems
> hackish and I suspect there is a more proper way to do this.
> Ralph
>
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