From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 9 18:41:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 872F516A4CE for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2004 18:41:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from webmail.maa-net.net (h00095b009f6b.ne.client2.attbi.com [66.30.61.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E378A43D2D for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2004 18:41:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from michaela@maa-net.net) Received: from maa-net.net (webmail.maa-net.net [192.168.0.5]) by webmail.maa-net.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i99IfUGk003439 for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2004 14:41:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from michaela@maa-net.net) From: "michaela" To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 14:41:30 -0400 Message-Id: <20041009182723.M39513@maa-net.net> Priority: urgent X-Mailer: Open WebMail 2.40 20040816 X-OriginatingIP: 192.168.0.10 (michaela) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: NFS(d) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 18:41:32 -0000 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@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@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????? Thanks in advance.... >> Michael