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NFS Client - nobody group

Hello,

I have a Linux server which is configured as a NFS server. I am using NFS4 to export /home to a client server. I am able to succesfully mount exported /home as /home_new on my client NFS server. But here is the Issue

ON NFS Server :
$ cd /home
$ ls -l |grep proftp
drwxrwx--- 5 proftp proftp 106496 May 11 07:21 proftp

ON NFS Client :
$ cd /home_new
$ ls -l |grep proftp
drwxrwx--- 5 proftp nobody 106496 May 11 07:21 proftp

I have all the directories groups exported as "nobody". This is only one of the directories but I have almost 70 of them. So what configurations changes I missed.

Also /etc/exports on my NFS Server are
# cat /etc/exports
/exports *(rw,sync,insecure,root_squash,no_subtree_check,fsid=0)
/exports/home *(rw,nohide,sync,insecure,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check)

Also I have the same /home exported as /home_new on another NFS client and I am able to see proper permissions. So there is something on this particular NFS client that needs to be tweeked

Thanks

jeremycrussell

Get the GIDs for proftp on the server and nobody on the client and they are likely the same number.

grep proftp /etc/group

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Should end up with something like (your GID will vary)

nobody::60001:

I'm not real clear on the problem this is causing and what you are trying to get to... on the client do you want the group for /home_new/proftp to read "proftp"?

farzanj

Could you show
cat /etc/idmapd.conf

mnis2008

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# cat /etc/idmapd.conf
[General]

Verbosity = 0
Pipefs-Directory = /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs
Domain = localdomain

[Mapping]

Nobody-User = nobody
Nobody-Group = nobody

[Translation]
Method = nsswitch

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