[CentOS] NFS Mount: files owned by nobody

Wed Mar 19 21:44:34 UTC 2014
Ljubomir Ljubojevic <centos at plnet.rs>

On 03/19/2014 08:37 PM, Lists wrote:
> On 03/19/2014 12:28 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
>> Do your user numeric id's match between the nfs server and client?
>
> Yes, and despite restarting all services manually, only a SIMULTANEOUS
> cold reboot for both client and server "resolved" the issue. (I've
> already rebooted by the client and server multiple times trying to sort
> it all out) So now, something ELSE has broken in the process: the client
> mounted a different directory on a different server via NFS, and now it
> is mounting as nobody.
>
> Based on setting the "Domain" parameter id idmapd.conf on the client, is
> this supposed to be the case that a client cannot mount NFS shares from
> more than one server?
>
>

It is very strange that client can mount directory on DIFFERENT SERVER? 
It looks like you have DNS/IP issues on your network?

I used autofs and IP address to point it to desired server, to avoid 
possible DNS problems.


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