NFS change ownership issue . Always nobody on client

[Thomas Taylor]

Is there an account on the client called contentmanager ? with a gid of 506?

On Sun, Aug 23, 2015, 02:16 Zama Ques <queszama at yahoo.in> wrote:

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> We are accessing NFS mounts across three hosts. The issue for us is that
> when we change the ownership of a directory on NFS mount on the server,
> the ownership changes are not taking place on the client. It is getting
> changed to nobody on the client. The issue can be seen for a particular
> user , for other users it is working fine. The user in question is the
> following user.
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> $ id contentmanager
> uid=506(contentmanager) gid=500(admin) groups=500(admin)
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> UID is same on both client and server machines.
> Also, if we change the ownership to contentmanager manually on the
> client, it is getting changed to nobody user. But if changed to some
> other user, it works fine.
> Please find /etc/exports for the particular directory on the server.
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> /shareddata/share       *(rw,no_root_squash,sync)
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> On the client machine, it is mounted as follows
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> lnxq-004:/shareddata/share  /data/share  nfs   vers=3,rw   0  0
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> Example on the Server:
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> $ sudo chown contentmanager test
> $ ls -l
> -rw-rw-r--  1 contentmanager admin    0 Aug 20 23:08 test
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> $ ls -ln test
>  -rw-rw-r-- 1 506 500 0 Aug 20 23:08 test
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> Example on the Client:
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> $ ls -l
> -rw-rw-r--  1 nobody admin    0 Aug 20 23:08 test
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> $ ls -ln test
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 99 500 0 Aug 20 23:08 test
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> This is the issue where the ownership is not getting changed to
> contentmanager
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