NFS Doesn't Exist Error

[Paul Howarth]

On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 15:57 +0900, Mark Sargent wrote:
> >Your uids/gids seem out of sync between client and server, i.e. you need
> >to synchronize your client's and server's uid/gid system (c.f.
> >nsswitch.conf).
> >  
> >
> how is this done..?
> 
> >I.e. you typically will have to synchonize /etc/passwd and /etc/groups
> >and might want to add a network wide passwd/groups system, such as
> >nis/yp.
> >  
> >
> sorry, what is nis/yp..?

Try here:
http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/linux-adv/nis.htm

For NFS you need the UIDs and GIDs of your regular user accounts to be
the same on server and clients. NIS is one way of doing this. In fact
it's the "standard" way of doing it because Sun developed NIS and NFS at
around the same time.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>