Hi, > i have mounted the maildirs on my FreeBSD mailserver into my home > directory using 2 /etc/fstab entries. the system mounts these > directories without problem. > > i can't even use ls to look into the maildirs unless i'm using root. all > the regular files and directories have my ownership, the maildirs are > owned by 1001:1001 - i'm not sure what this is. so this is a user on your nfs-server with uid 1001 (which does apparently not exist on your nfs-client). > i've followed the online netbsd guide to set up the nfs client with the > appropriate /etc/rc.conf variables and also for the FreeBSD server's > /etc/rc.conf & /etc/exports files. > > i really don't what is happening, can anyone help at all? The problem in this case is just the UID-mapping between your computers. You should read about ways of mapping or synchronising uids. Searching the web for 'nfs uid mapping' shows some helpful articles. Regards, Julian
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