NFS4 home mounts owned by nfsnobody

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Wed Jun 24 05:10:45 UTC 2009


On 06/24/2009 06:10 AM, Braden McDaniel wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 10:13 +0100, John Austin wrote:

>> I had the same problem (F11)
>> The cure for me was to ensure that the name of the local machine (naxos) is
>> available to "mount"
>> Putting the name in /etc/hosts on naxos does the job
>>
>> naxos ~ 2# cat /etc/hosts
>> 127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4 naxos
>> ::1         localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6
>>
>> It is not good enough that hostname is set
>
> Are you quite certain that's what did it for you? This doesn't appear to
> be working for me. :-/

Check the "hosts:" entry in /etc/nsswitch.conf

I found FC11's default /etc/nsswitch.conf not to be suitable for me and 
had to tweak it.

Ralf




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