NFS sharing of files across HPUX servers

[Wayne Moyer]

I have a new application that will run on one HPUX system but needs to access data on another HPUX system. Can I share the data and some how maintain group and owner perissions across the systems? Although the passwd files have the same users and groups the UID and GID are different. Or must I implement NIS?

[DCE]

You do not need to implement NIS.

You need to make the UID and GID consistent an each server for each user (SAM will help you do this, if you are not a command line person)

NIS is not a good idea - it does not work with trusted systems.

NIS+ will work, but LDAP is HP's stated sirection.......

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Have user names with the same numeric userid and numeric groups on both systems.

SEP

[DCE]

NIS is not a good idea - it does not work with trusted systems

All you need to do is make the UID's and GID's consistenent for each user on both systems (SAM will help you do this, if you are not a command line guru)

NIS+ is also an option, but LDAP is probably the direction to go, since that is HP's stated direction

[Wayne Moyer]

Thanks for the responses. I was hoping for an easy solution. The UID and GID on the second system are being used so it will take some work to resolve this.

[Wayne Moyer]

For short term fix I will be changing UID and GID on the second server to match the other server.