NFS Doesn't Exist Error

[Mike McCarty]

Ralf Corsepius 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).
> 
> 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.

Since you seem knowledgeable, and since this seems to be right
up the alley for this thread, I'd like some advice...

I do contract work at home. I have no real LAN, just one manchine.
But when on occasion I need to go to the office which employs me
we hook up. We do not have synchronized UIDs. I obviously don't
want to use NIS at home (or do I?). Yet, when at their office,
I can't just use NFS to transfer files from my machines to theirs.
I have to use FTP in order to get the UID correct on their machine.

They do not use NIS, they just keep the user names in synch manually.

Mike
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