[CLUE-Tech] My 30-second SuSE 9.1 Review (err, whinge)

Nate Duehr nate at natetech.com
Mon Jul 26 00:48:49 MDT 2004


On Sunday 25 July 2004 11:56, Roy J. Tellason wrote:

> I've just started recently doing stuff with nfs,  what's the connection
> with user or group numbers?

Unless you're using something like NIS+ (ick... ewww!) to map things, or other 
tools, NFS maps the UID's and GID's straight through from one machine to 
another.  So all your machines have to match up UID/GID-wise or you'll go 
nuts figuring out permission problems.  ;-)

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Nate Duehr, nate at natetech.com 



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