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On Saturday, June 9, 2018 6:42:56 AM CEST Ian Zimmerman wrote: |
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> Is there _any_ way around the need to keep the user IDs matched on NFS |
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> clients and servers? |
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Not to my knowledge. |
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I use OpenLDAP for my users and groups and this has worked perfectly ever |
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since I implemented it. |
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> Or, is there any other remote filesystem (other than the one originally |
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> made by Microsoft) that avoids that chore? |
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I am only familiar with CIFS/SMB and NFS. Not sure if any other shared |
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filesystems handle this. A minimum requirement would be that you need to login |
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to the fileserver using a username and password. |
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> This is the main reason I have mostly stayed away from NFS all these |
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> years. Recently sshfs has been a good enough substitute, but now it's |
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> proving not reliable enough for long term connections. |
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I found NFS to be stable for long term (months) connections. When working from |
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mobile machines (Laptops), I use SMB/CIFS to access the same files. |
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