nfs ownership

DISCUSSION Andrew Langdon-Davies 2 participants 2 messages Jan 22, 2003

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Andrew Langdon-Davies

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2003-01-22 11:32 UTC #0 lore raw

I was using Suse 8.0 on two machines, sharing certain directories via NFS, with no problems.
Having changed one machine to Mandrake 9.0 (for the sake of variety), I now find I don't own the files on the other machine. Mandrake says the owner of the files on the Suse machine is 500; Suse says the owner of the files on the Mandrake machine is 501. Where do I start changing things? TIA
Andrew

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Arno Seitzinger

2003-01-22 13:40 UTC #1 lore raw

Quoted 9 lines · Andrew Langdon-Davies

I was using Suse 8.0 on two machines, sharing certain directories via NFS, with no problems.
Having changed one machine to Mandrake 9.0 (for the sake of variety), I now find I don't own the files on the other machine. Mandrake says the owner of the files on the Suse machine is 500; Suse says the owner of the files on the Mandrake machine is 501. Where do I start changing things? TIA
Andrew

The user id have to be the same on both machines if you want to share files with a rwx------ permission (only owner can read, write, execute, no permission to others). One way would be to delete user on one machine and create it new with matching id. Very likely there will be other ways for matching the user id, too (NIS?).
When you're done, chown -R the files from the user you deleted if you want to keep them under the new name.

Arno