NFS link to Windows 2000

[Jim Park]

I am nfs linking to windows 2000 system from a HPUX 10.2 system. Link appears to work OK as the bdf and ll shows the linked folders & files, but the user appears as nobody and group appears as nogroup. what do I do to get correct user and group id working? ON w2k I have used Microsoft's services for UNIX v3 and mapped all users.

[harry d brown jr]

Why not use samba ?? A lot easier and more native to M$ than NFS.

And as to your issue, what do you mean the user appears as "nobody" ?? Are you talking about file ownership?


live free or die
harry

[T G Manikandan · Accepted solution]

You are right.In Unix whenever you mount a remote file system using NFS the user and group are given as nobody.

Infact the group ID and USerID -2 is reserved for the nobody user and group .
check your /etc/passwd and /etc/group file.

Probably you have to give root permissions for the client system using the anon option in the /etc/exports file.
Then you can change the ownership.

check this doc

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000062947039