NFS(d)

[Emanuel Strobl]

Am Samstag, 9. Oktober 2004 20:41 schrieb michaela:
> I was attempting to setup NFS between my usermachine (nfs-client) and
> emailserver (nfs-server) using the instructions from the FreeBSD Handbook
> (section 19.5).  Both machines are on my LAN.
>
> I wanted to have my users be able to get their email straight from
> the /var/mail directory via NFS, as opposed to having it fetched remotely
> via PINE.
>
> Everything runs great, EXCEPT... When I goto look at the /var/mail
> directory on the usermachine I get this listing.....
>
> (michaela at bsd)-># ls -l /var/mail
> total 584
> -rw-rw----  1 apticle    mail          0 Oct  9 01:33 .apticle.pop
> -rw-rw----  1 1003       mail          0 Oct  9 12:25 .cyberjedi.pop
> -rw-rw----  1 stunnel    mail          0 Oct  8 17:21 .jisaac.pop
> -rw-rw----  1 cyberjedi  mail          0 Oct  9 14:24 .michaela.pop
> -rw-rw----  1 michaela   mail          0 Oct  8 07:42 .sysadmin.pop
> -rw-rw----  1 apticle    mail          0 Oct  9 01:33 apticle
> -rw-rw----  1 astronut   mail          0 Sep  4 14:34 astronut
> -rw-rw----  1 mtanaki    mail       3256 Sep 16 11:02 babyboy
> -rw-------  1 106        106           0 Sep  5 01:07 clamav
> -rw-rw----  1 babyboy    mail          0 Sep  4 14:35 cpu
> -rw-rw----  1 1003       mail          0 Oct  9 12:37 cyberjedi
> -rw-rw----  1 sysadmin   mail          0 Sep  4 22:26 donations
> -rw-rw----  1 stunnel    mail          0 Oct  8 17:21 jisaac
> -rw-rw----  1 cyberjedi  mail          0 Oct  9 14:24 michaela
> -rw-rw----  1 clamav     mail     380174 Oct  5 11:19 michaeljr
> -rw-rw----  1 goose      mail          0 Sep  4 14:36 mtanaki
> -rw-------  1 70         70            0 Sep 12 14:03 pgsql
> -rw-------  1 root       wheel    162836 Oct  9 04:19 root
> -rw-------  1 cpu        stunnel       0 Sep  8 16:21 stunnel
> -rw-rw----  1 michaela   wheel     18523 Oct  9 06:00 sysadmin
> -rw-rw----  1 trivash    mail          0 Sep  4 14:38 trivash
> (michaela at bsd)->#
>
>
> Notice how the OWNERS and GROUPS of certain users (entries) don't belong to
> the proper "owners".  This causes, "PERMISSION DENIED" errors while trying
> to read email in PINE because the mailbox isn't 'owned' by the specific
> user.
>
> The /var/mail directory on my usermachine (nfs-client) is the same as on
> the emailserver (nfs-server).  However, when running NFS the
> filepermissions change the /var/mail directory on the userserver
> (nfs-client).
>
> I have the option -maproot=root in my /etc/exports file on the emailserver
> (nfs-server).
>
> Any idea to what might be causing this, and how I would resolve it???  I
> was thinking that even though I have the SAME users on each box, the UIDs
> are DIFFERENT on the two machines.  Could that be it?????

Right, only UID counts. You want to think about yp/nis or a LDAP user 
database!
But you have to synchronize UIDs and GIDs to make NFS useful.

-Harry

>
>
> Thanks in advance....
>
> >> Michael
>
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to
> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 187 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/attachments/20041009/3c531c8e/attachment-0001.bin