Hi all,
I have one IBM AIX server (serverA) which is connected to the san storage. I have created a volume group and also file system (jfs2) and mounted to directory /profit.
After that I created a NFS share for that directory and started the NFS daemon.
Over at another server, which is IBM AIX also (serverB), I created a mount point /profit and mounted the nfs share from serverA to serverB using the below command: mount 192.168.10.1:/profit /profit
On serverB, I am able to access the directory and list the files in it. But the strange thing is, on serverA, the directory and files are under the oracle user ownership. But in serverB, i see them as a different user.
When i touch a file in that directory at serverB, on serverA, i see it as another user id.
Any clue how i can fix this?
Below is the file listing from serverB
$ ls -l
total 0
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root system 0 Mar 16 15:00 haha
-rwxrwxrwx 1 radiusd radiusd 0 Mar 16 15:19 haha2
-rwxrwxrwx 1 radiusd radiusd 0 Mar 16 15:31 haha3
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 0 Mar 17 2011 hahah3
drwxrwxrwx 2 radiusd radiusd 256 Mar 16 14:40 lost+found
On serverA it looks like below:
# ls -l /profit
total 0
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root system 0 Mar 16 15:00 haha
-rwxrwxrwx 1 oracle dba 0 Mar 16 15:19 haha2
-rwxrwxrwx 1 oracle dba 0 Mar 16 15:31 haha3
-rw-r--r-- 1 10 sshd 0 Mar 17 16:01 hahah3
drwxrwxrwx 2 oracle dba 256 Mar 16 14:40 lost+found
Below is the /etc/exports file from serverA
# more /etc/exports
/profit -vers=3,sec=sys:krb5p:krb5i:krb5:dh,rw
Thanks.
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I think I may have find out why. It's because the oracle uid and gid in serverA are different from the one in serverB. So i changed the ownership to nobody:nobody.
So, 1 question. When we setup NFS, what's the best practice in terms of directory and file ownerships?