Re: [SPF:fail] Re: strange NFS behaviour after upgrade to F13

[Ed Greshko]

On 06/05/2010 06:34 AM, Julian C. Dunn wrote:
>  On 06/04/2010 08:15 AM, M A Young wrote:
>    
> > On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, M A Young wrote:
> >
> >     
> >> On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Julian C. Dunn wrote:
> >>
> >>       
> >>> I have upgraded both a NFS client and NFS server to F13 from F12.
> >>>
> >>> Now, on the client, all the files in my NFS home directory appear to be
> >>> owned by nobody:nobody. It's as though they were being mysteriously
> >>> root_squashed even though they're not owned by root.
> >>>         
> >> This could be as a result of the switch from NFSv3 to NFSv4 by default. I 
> >> have seen this problem as well though I haven't had time to investigate if 
> >> this is the trigger.
> >>       
> > Are you getting a lot of error messages like
> > rpc.idmapd[pid]: nss_getpwnam: name 'user@nisdomain' does not map into 
> > domain 'dnsdomain'
> > in /var/log/messages? In my case it looks like rpc.idmapd can't cope 
> > with nisdomain and dnsdomain being different and I haven't successfully 
> > found a way to get this to work.
> >     
>  Yes, I have many of those as well -- although I am not using NIS so I
>  don't know if it's relevant.
>
>  Also, I was running NFSv4 under F12 as well.
>
>
>     
The way to fix this is to edit /etc/idmapd.conf on both the server and
client side and ensure that they have matching "Domain =" declarations. 
After editing, it is necessary to restart rpc.idmapd.

Ed


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