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 <g...@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 -- Glenn English