On 8/27/13 12:01 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Is idmapd supposed to work where users have different uid numbers on > the nfsv4 server and client? It seems to show the right names for > ownership on the client side, but if I automount a home directory, > that user doesn't have permission to enter it, and if I change > permission to allow access and create a new file, it shows on the > server as owned by the uid number for the user on the client (and > wrong on the server). > > Everything works like it would on nfs v3 where the uid numbers are > the same on the client and server, but what's the point of the > rpcidmapd daemon if it doesn't actually map the ids? > As far as I know, nfs4 doesn't care about UID/GID, but checks names, so it should work, no matter that you have different UIDs on server and client for same users. Cheers, Barbara