On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 17:37 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Tim wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 18:11 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> The issue may be that nfs4 doesn't seem to be working, mount.nfs4 > >> gives a failure, so perhaps job one will be to find out why the export > >> isn't working. > > > > Are all the computers using the same OS? Prior Fedora releases used a > > lesser (than 4) version of NFS by default, and would require manual > > configuration to use NFS4. Other distros probably have the same issue. > > > Yes, and I can't seem to get nfs4 working on the server side. I have tried > adding flags to the exportfs call but the ones in the manual seem to be > rejected. This is a set of fully updated Fedora 9 boxes, and mount.nfs4 is > present, but the options for export seem unsupported. > > I can test using the /etc/exports file, but exporting things before doing the > mount on them seems to have it's own issues, and the determination of what to > mount for export is definitely done many seconds after boot. The NFS3 moutns > work fine, but access is broken. > > >> NFS is so insecure by nature that it would be nice not to fight > >> pseudo-security. > > > > Yes. I'd use it in a network where you trust people not to exploit it, > > and can manage the configuration to connect the right user names with > > each other. But where you can't trust users not to exploit it, or use > > it incorrectly, or your network is exposed to outsiders (unencrypted > > wireless, running as part of someone else's LAN, etc.), you'd want > > something better. > > > Network security isn't the issue here, it's all a matter of uid at the moment. ---- I don't know what you have or haven't done or if you have configured idmapd and started rcpidmapd service but here is some instructions... http://fedorasolved.org/post-install-solutions/nfsv4-fedora Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
