Frank Batschulat (Home) wrote: > On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:45:41 +0200, Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams at > Sun.COM> wrote: > > >> On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 10:37:04AM -0500, Paul Fisher wrote: >> >>> I'm trying to use NFSv4 mounts and idmap to deal with differences in the >>> uid/gid values between the server and clients. It is my understanding >>> that NFSv4/idmap will map names->ids, and not use the id values >>> directly. Is this correct? >>> >> Sortof. >> >> NFSv4 uses names on the wire. >> >> The Solaris NFSv4 stack supports only one Unix domain, plus it supports >> all of an Active Directory (Windows) forest. >> >> What you're trying to do, evidently, is use multiple Unix domains. We >> don't support that yet. >> >> >>> - Domain = localnet (etch-01 -> /etc/idmapd.conf >>> >> There is no idmapd.conf on Solaris. >> > > maybe there is some confusion by the inital poster wrt. to NFSv4 and idmap(1M) > and nfsmapid(1M). NFSv4 uses the latter as a framework to map OTW usernames > > http://opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation/files/nfsmapid.html > I read this document, and it says that the client and server exchange UID and GID values as strings <UID name>@domain and <GID name>@domain. As long as the string names exist on the target and are of the same domain they are translated locally to UID/GID matching the name. Both the client (linux) and the server (opensolaris) are configured to use "localnet" as the idmap domain.
This is exactly what I am expecting, so what am I mis-reading? -- paul
