On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 16:02, Pepe Torralba wrote: > > > I exported a directory in SCO and mounted it in a digital 4.0D machine. > Everything was OK but the uids and gids of the files in that directory when > I list them in the client machine. > I think that the client looks for these in its /etc/passwd and thats why it > shows wrong user and group names or non at all (just numbers). > I include a line in the client's /etc/passwd file for a new user with the > same uid and gid as in the server's /etc/passwd and when I ls -l the > directory the user and group name of the file where ok.
That's just what I did when I set up my own linux machine at work. It wasn't on NIS with the real production machines, but I still wanted to nfs mount my home directory and use it. It doesn't hurt anything as far as I know. Bryan ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
