On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 03:32:04PM +0100, Alessio Gaeta wrote: > Hello. > I'm running a home server with Debian Lenny and exporting NFS4 shares. > Needing a basic username<->UID mapping I use idmapd (on server and > clients, of course). > > Nevertheless, when accessing shares from a client, all files are mapped > to nobody:nogroup. > Restarting idmapd (/etc/init.d/nfs-common restart) solves the problem, > and users are correctly mapped.
Where are you restarting idmapd? On the server or the client? > It seems that tries to map UID as usernames when started before nfsd; in > daemon.log I can read messages like: > > rpc.idmapd[pid]: nss_getpwnam: name '1000' does not map into domain foo' This is an error from NSS. What does your NSS setup look like? Are you using LDAP or somesuch? > Maybe init start order of nfs-common should be reconsidered, moving the > script after nfs-kernel-server. That would be impossible -- nfs-kernel-server depends on nfs-common to run properly. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]