strange NFS behaviour after upgrade to F13

[Julian C. Dunn]

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 at 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.

- Julian