F14 NFS client gets wrong ownership IDs on NFS mounted partition

Mark Eackloff meackloff at cox.net
Mon Jun 6 01:23:21 UTC 2011


On 05/04/2011 04:46 PM, Mark Eackloff wrote:
> On 05/04/2011 03:12 AM, Frank Elsner wrote:
>> On Tue, 03 May 2011 17:10:27 -0400 Mark Eackloff wrote:
>>> Just upgraded to F14.  Small home network environment.  As before my upgrade from F13, my /home directory is an NFS mounted partition exported from my F13 (not yet upgraded) server.  Nothing changed on the server.  Where all my imported /home files on the client had the correct ownership before the upgrade, they now all show a UID and GID of 99 (nobody) on the client.  This is obviously rendering filess nearly useless.
>>>
>>> Authentication is through NIS.  "ypcat passwd" yields expected listing with all imported user IDs with the expected UIDs and GIDs (all above 499).
>>
>> I guess this an NFS version problem which I had also.
>>
>> Add "nfsvers=3" to your mount options and retry.
>>
>> For me, I hat to add the option to my automounter files, YMMV.
>>
>>
>> --Frank Elsner
>
> Bingo!  Strange though.  The man page for mount.ntfs has no mention of that option.
>
> Thanks Frank
>
> Mark

Found it on man 5 nfs.

Mark


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