nfs - change uid / gid of the mounted FS

[g3jza]

Hi,
I've got this task to do:

HP-UX will NFS export a FS, so it will act as NFS server. The uid of this FS is 'xxx' and group id is 'yyy' for example.

The NFS client on the RHEL would like to see this FS exported under different uid / gid , so 'zzz' , how can this be achieved in NFS?

Thanks for your ideas.

[Dennis Handly]

You can't, that's part of the security.
Ideally, you need to make sure the UID/GID of all machines match.

With Samba, you can match up Windows users with Unix UIDs. It may work for Linux?

[Ismail Azad]

Hi q3,

Anyways... Using the NFS protocol ideally requires user and group consistency atleast_on_HPUX which is exactly the opposite of what you are trying to acheive... Well people go with NIS/LDAP to acheive this... Any reason why RHEL would want to see these UID's as different??

Regards
Ismail Azad

[g3jza]

I thought this was possible by remapping uids on the client side. My work-mate told me that it's possible in nfsv4, in linux (Ubuntu/debian) the remapping needs to be made in /etc/idmapd.conf.


Ismail: The user on the client needs to be different from server side, because different user on the client side needs to be able to have read/write access to that exported FS.

I was also thinking about the final solution to be changed to Samba/CIFS, instead of NFS

[Dennis Handly]

>because different user on the client side needs to be able to have read/write access to that exported FS.

Have you thought of putting that user in a group that has R/W access?
I was also thinking of ACLs but don't know if they work over NFS.

[g3jza]

Dennis: How simple was this :) , thanks for a final solution.

[g3jza]

solved.