[CentOS] NFS Mount: files owned by nobody

Wed Mar 19 20:24:26 UTC 2014
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Lists <lists at benjamindsmith.com> 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?

I think idmapd is just broken in general unless you have a common
network authentication system.  I had it working across a set of
servers, then added some more users (same uids across the set) and it
wouldn't pick them up without a reboot.  I think I'll switch to nfsv3
next time around.

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  Les Mikesell
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