[CentOS] NFS mounted files owned by nobody

[Larry Martell]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have 2 centos boxes and I want to NFS mount a dir from one to the
>> other. When I do that the files on the client all are owned by
>> nobody.nobody. I verified that the user and group of the files on the
>> server exist on both hosts and have the same uid and gid. I googled
>> and found this:
>>
>> http://whacked.net/2006/07/26/nfsv4nfs-mapid-nobody-domain/
>>
>> domainname on both machines returns (none). I edited /etc/resolve.conf
>> on both and put 'domain foobar' as the first line in both. But then
>> when I did a 'service network restart' the files were re-written and
>> my changes were gone.
>>
>
> Edit /etc/idmapd.conf and set
> Domain =
> to the same thing on both, and do a 'service rpcidmapd reload'.  And
> note that it still won't map names to different uids the way you
> expect unless you have kerberos or some network authentication set up,
> but if the uids are the same it should work and at least quit mapping
> them to nobody.

That was it! Thanks!