Alas, this doesn't seem to have resolved the issue. (See results shown below) Your notes closely mirror the results of my google searches. Is there a way to have NFS server/client be very verbose and log where the error is occuring? -Ben On 03/17/2014 03:20 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2014 15:10:28 -0700 > Lists wrote: > >> When I try to NFS (v4) mount a directory, the user/group ownership shows >> up as user "nobody" even though /etc/passwd has values for the correct >> user names. How do I get it to mount with the correct user IDs? > Hello Mr. Lists: My name is Ben :) > > Here are my notes that cover this occurrence. > > If all users come up as nobody on a nfs mount: > > Add nfs server name to the Domain = line in /etc/idmapd.conf on both the server and the clients, i.e. Domain = example.com On the server: [root at hume ~]# grep Domain /etc/idmapd.conf Domain = hume.mycompany.com And the client: [root at bender ~]# grep Domain /etc/idmapd.conf #Domain = local.domain.edu Domain = hume.mycompany.com > > /sbin/service rpcidmapd restart > /sbin/service nfslock restart > /sbin/service nfs restart Server: [root at hume ~]# /sbin/service rpcidmapd restart Shutting down RPC idmapd: [ OK ] Starting RPC idmapd: [ OK ] [root at hume ~]# /sbin/service nfslock restart Stopping NFS locking: [ OK ] Stopping NFS statd: [ OK ] Starting NFS statd: [ OK ] [root at hume ~]# /sbin/service nfs restart Shutting down NFS daemon: [ OK ] Shutting down NFS mountd: [ OK ] Shutting down NFS services: [ OK ] Shutting down RPC idmapd: [ OK ] Starting NFS services: [ OK ] Starting NFS mountd: [ OK ] Starting NFS daemon: [ OK ] Starting RPC idmapd: [ OK ] And the client: (nfs service wasn't previously running) [root at bender ~]# /sbin/service rpcidmapd restart Shutting down RPC idmapd: [ OK ] Starting RPC idmapd: [ OK ] [root at bender ~]# /sbin/service rpcidmapd restart Shutting down RPC idmapd: [ OK ] Starting RPC idmapd: [ OK ] [root at bender ~]# /sbin/service nfslock restart Stopping NFS statd: [ OK ] Starting NFS statd: [ OK ] [root at bender ~]# /sbin/service nfs restart Shutting down NFS daemon: [FAILED] Shutting down NFS mountd: [FAILED] Shutting down NFS quotas: [FAILED] Shutting down RPC idmapd: [ OK ] Starting NFS services: [ OK ] Starting NFS quotas: [ OK ] Starting NFS mountd: [ OK ] Starting NFS daemon: [ OK ] Starting RPC idmapd: [ OK ] > Also, the complete hostname as specified (example.com) must be in /etc/hosts on the nfs clients as well as the server > > [root at hume ~]# grep hume /etc/hosts 192.168.254.9 hume.mycompany.com hume [root at hume ~]# exportfs -ra [root at hume ~]# hostname hume.mycompany.com [root at hume ~]# [root at bender ~]# grep hume /etc/hosts 192.168.254.9 hume.mycompany.com hume [root at bender ~]# umount /home/spfs.450 [root at bender ~]# /bin/mount -t nfs hume.mycompany.com:/home/spfs.450 /home/spfs.450 [root at bender ~]# ls -ln /home/spfs.450/ drwxr-xr-x 3 99 99 3 Oct 8 2009 y.spfs drwxr-xr-x 3 99 99 3 Feb 1 2010 yts.spfs --SNIP--