NFS4 home mounts owned by nfsnobody

[Braden McDaniel]

On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 07:10 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 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.

        # cat /etc/nsswitch.conf | grep ^hosts:
        hosts:      files nis dns

That seems reasonable to me.  I'm using NIS and I have a functional
nameserver.

-- 
Braden McDaniel <braden at endoframe.com>