On Saturday, June 9, 2018 6:42:56 AM CEST Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Is there _any_ way around the need to keep the user IDs matched on NFS > clients and servers?
Not to my knowledge. I use OpenLDAP for my users and groups and this has worked perfectly ever since I implemented it. > Or, is there any other remote filesystem (other than the one originally > made by Microsoft) that avoids that chore? I am only familiar with CIFS/SMB and NFS. Not sure if any other shared filesystems handle this. A minimum requirement would be that you need to login to the fileserver using a username and password. > This is the main reason I have mostly stayed away from NFS all these > years. Recently sshfs has been a good enough substitute, but now it's > proving not reliable enough for long term connections. I found NFS to be stable for long term (months) connections. When working from mobile machines (Laptops), I use SMB/CIFS to access the same files. -- Joost
