NFS + NIS madness

[shimi]

2011/11/27 Hetz Ben Hamo <hetzbh at gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
> I have not had the "pleasure" of setting NFS + NIS for quite a long time
> (since 2000 approx), but now I need it for a client.
>
> I've set up a "lab" at home to test it before I deployed it.
> NFS mount works, no problems.
>
> However, with NIS when I login to the client, I see the files and
> everything, but the GID show for example as "500" instead of the actual
> "test" group. The user shows correctly.
>
> idmap etc works..
>
> Any suggestions?
> Thanks,
> Hetz
>
>
>
Did you tell your system to use groups from NIS in /etc/nsswitch.conf ?
(might need to put 'nis' before 'compat' / 'files' if you want it to
override a local equivalent value)

-- Shimi
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