So I have two boxes set up. An ubuntu box, gladys, and a PC-BSD box, wilbur. On both boxes I sign in as dan, typical user, sysadmin,etc. I have wilbur as the NFS server and gladys fits nicely as the NFS client. Gladys can see wilbur's big drive but wilbur cannot see anything on gladys. Fine, I don't mind.
The problem comes into play when I try to write to various directories on wilbur (server) from gladys (client). Seems to do so I have to have the directory permissions set at 777 on wilbur (server) in order to accomplish this.
My question is, on the client, gladys, am I connecting to the server, wilbur, as gladys, or the user dan under gladys. Do I need a logon for gladys on the server to write to directories with permissions set to say 775? Shouldn't it be enough that I have a logon on both boxes of dan. Do I need to map the groups on both machines with a utility somewhere?
Any pointers would help. And, will I understand the answer? In the meantime, I'll rtfm.
Tia.
The problem comes into play when I try to write to various directories on wilbur (server) from gladys (client). Seems to do so I have to have the directory permissions set at 777 on wilbur (server) in order to accomplish this.
My question is, on the client, gladys, am I connecting to the server, wilbur, as gladys, or the user dan under gladys. Do I need a logon for gladys on the server to write to directories with permissions set to say 775? Shouldn't it be enough that I have a logon on both boxes of dan. Do I need to map the groups on both machines with a utility somewhere?
Any pointers would help. And, will I understand the answer? In the meantime, I'll rtfm.
Tia.