Please ignore this question.

I did an idiot move, I su'd to do something and forgot to exit back to my 
user account before moving the files. 

Someday I will learn to pay attention to what I am doing. :)

Any way I am off to write 100 times. "Do not work as root!"

Sorry

Jerry

On Saturday 23 June 2001 07:51, Jerry Sternesky wrote:
> I moved all my saved files off a server, wiped the server clean and
> installed Mandrake 8.0. I am using the 2.2.19 kernel since I have a scsi
> cdr that is having issues with 2.4.  I Setup nfs on the server and from an
> up to date Mandrake 7.2 client started moving files back to the server.
>
> I noticed when I create dir's and files on the nfs share from the client
> machine they are assigned user and group of 65534.  When I do it from a
> terminal on the server it has the name and group of the id I am logged in
> as.
>
> Is this OK?  Or an I looking at a potential issue?
>
> I also have this same dir as a samba share so I can access it from a
> windows client and the dir's created from windows have the name and group
> as the user creating and moving the files.
>
> Since this is the first time I have encountered this I am wondering if
> there is cause for concern.  It seems the files are accessible as I want
> them to be.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jerry

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