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From: Wols Lists <antlists@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] NFS and user IDs
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2018 07:27:34
Message-Id: 5B1B815B.70301@youngman.org.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] NFS and user IDs by Ian Zimmerman
1 On 09/06/18 05:42, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
2 > Is there _any_ way around the need to keep the user IDs matched on NFS
3 > clients and servers?
4 >
5 > Or, is there any other remote filesystem (other than the one originally
6 > made by Microsoft) that avoids that chore?
7
8 Which filesystem do you mean? Do you mean SMB/CIFS? Because that is NOT
9 originally an MS product, and unlike many things they stole, they never
10 bought it.
11
12 Read up on the history. Allison and whoever wrote Samba because they
13 wanted to talk to DEC. Only later did they realise that MS had copied
14 the same protocol.
15
16 Cheers,
17 Wol