Re: The state of NFS4?

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On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 06:23 -0500, Justin Willmert wrote:
> Uno Engborg wrote:
> > Is NFS4 supposed to work in Fedora, and if so what versions does it
> > work?
> >
> > I have the following  problem:
> >
> > I try to set up a FC3 (named aslan) machine as server and I use a FC4
> > box as client (named odin).
> > It work as far as I can mount the exported disk from the FC3 on the FC4
> > box, but they are owned by nobody.
> >
> > If I try to mount the FC3 share on the FC3 box itself everything works
> > fine, and the ownerships of the mounted files are correct.
> >
> > At first I thought that indicated that the FC3 server was OK, but then I
> > tried to set up a share on the FC4 machine, and mount that on the FC4
> > machine itself, now the permissions was OK again. If I tried to mount
> > the share from the FC4 machine on the FC3 box by doing: 
> >
> >
> > mount -t nfs4 -o rw odin:/ /mnt/NFS4
> >
> >
> > I get the following
> > message:
> > mount: block device FC4:/ is write-protected, mounting read-only
> > mount: cannot mount block device odin:/ read-only
> >
> > But I can mount it with no problems on the FC4 box itself using the same
> > command. However I don't seam to be able to set acls on the mounted
> > share. (I can set ACLs on the filesystem of server but nothing shows up
> > on the client when it is exported and mounted there, apart from standard
> > permissions.)
> >
> > Both machines get their users and groups from the same LDAP server,
> > execpt for the root user and the nfsnobody user that are defined locally
> > but in the same way on both machines.
> >
> >
> > to set things up, I follow the description in:
> > http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/NFSv4/NFSv4-no-rpcsec.html
> >
> > Any ideas why:
> >
> > 1) everything is owned by nobody if I mount an NFS4 share from another
> > host, but gets OK permissions if I mount the share in the same host?
> >
> > 2)ACL:s doesn't work?
> >
> >
> > All software is the latest available. Meaning kernels used are: 
> >        2.6.12-2.3.legacy_FC3
> >        2.6.17-1.2142_FC4
> >
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Regards
> > Uno Engborg
> >
> >
> >
> >   
> Check out rpcidmapd. It translates names between computers, which NFSv4 
> uses. The configuration file is at /etc/idmapd.conf, and you should only 
> have to change the domains so they match, and then restart rpcidmapd (or 
> enable it if it isn't running) and restart nfs.
> 
> Justin Willmert

The idmapd.conf:s are identical both on server and client. So the
problem seam to be somewhere else.


Thanks for trying to help!
/uno
> 

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