* walt <w41...@gmail.com> [110804 17:26]: > I'm trying to be a good gentoo netizen by nfs-sharing /usr/portage between > my three local gentoo machines, and failing :( > > After weeks of fiddling, I discovered today that my problems come from > using a 32-bit machine to serve my two 64-bit NFS clients(!) > > (I'll mention up front that NFSv3 works perfectly -- only NFSv4 is bad.) > > For reasons I don't know, the 64-bit client machines mount the 32-bit > NFSv4 share with UID/GID 0xffffffe, which won't let even root write to > the rw share. > > I googled an old thread mentioning that 0xffff is decimal 65534, a UID > traditionally assigned to the user 'nobody'. > > Can anyone else reproduce my problem, or give a hint how to work around > it? > > (This list is so quiet today I'm wondering if gmane.org is down.) >
Does using the no_root_squash export option help on the machine exporting the filesystem? (See man exports) Todd
