Re: NFS

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 05:45:45PM -0400, Dale Heatherington wrote:
> Annoyance #1
> User numbers must match on both the server and client
> before files can be accessed.  User names don't count.
> User numbers are automatically assigned when users
> are created so will not ever match on the server and client
> unless manual editing is performed.  Several years
> ago I attempted to create a map_static file that
> was supposed to map client user numbers to server
> user numbers but it didn't work at all.

For small networks, I find it easiest to keep the /etc/passwd and 
/etc/shadow in sync on all the systems with a cron job.


> Annoyance #2
> Sometimes the NFS server will go down.  All client machines
> will freeze up. They cannot even be rebooted.  The GUI freezes.
> Both Linux and the OSX clients do this.  There seems to be no timeout.

On the clients, in the /etc/fstab add either "soft" or "hard,intr" to the 
option for the NFS mounts.  

And last "man nfs"

Dave V.

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