From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 24 20:09:58 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DF0216A404 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:09:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out4.apple.com (mail-out4.apple.com [17.254.13.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57A3013C459 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:09:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay8.apple.com (a17-128-113-38.apple.com [17.128.113.38]) by mail-out4.apple.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0OK9wVa004532; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:09:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay8.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay8.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id E347140088; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:09:57 -0800 (PST) X-AuditID: 11807126-a2e83bb000000245-1a-45b7bd15caab Received: from [17.214.13.96] (unknown [17.214.13.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay8.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id CCACC40012; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:09:57 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <45B7BAFC.50808@gmail.com> References: <51e113440701240553t53217acfna5c60db02ddeb3c8@mail.gmail.com> <45B776A8.30802@unsane.co.uk> <45B7BAFC.50808@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <1F52A303-699B-4D54-A2AF-08289E92599F@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:09:57 -0800 To: WarrenHead X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nfs mount rw X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:09:58 -0000 On Jan 24, 2007, at 12:01 PM, WarrenHead wrote: > I really want is the 'rw by default' bit. So that each user can > create files and get their own uid:gid accordingly. > If NIS is the answer here, I would not be surprised. Could it be? In order for NFS filesharing to work sensibly, the server and client need to share the same uid/gid information. You can manually sync the contents of /etc/group and /etc/passwd, but over the long term, setting up some form of network directory services (ie, NIS, LDAP/ OpenDirectory, etc) will make life much easier... -- -Chuck