LDAP Client NFS share

[grimm08]

I have got an ldap client successfully authenticating to my ldap server. However I share /home from an nfs server to keep files in sync across the network.

However when I or any other user logs into the client and performs an "ls -la" to get the permissions of their /home directory the user and group owner is "nobody" Like shown below.

[root@ta1 oberlander]# ls -l
total 36
drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 4096 Jul 13 13:25 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 3 nobody nobody 4096 Jul 11 14:59 Documents
drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 4096 Jul 11 14:39 Downloads
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 2008 Jul 11 14:47 license.dat
drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 4096 Jun 23 09:05 Music
drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 4096 Jun 23 09:05 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 4096 Jun 23 09:05 Public
drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 4096 Jun 23 09:05 Templates
drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 4096 Jun 23 09:05 Videos


I'm pretty sure that the server is not reading permission correctly because I can mount the /home directory from my old server (which I migrated the account information from) and the permissions map with no problem.

For your information:

Server: Red Hat ES 6
Client: Fedora 14

Let me know if anyone has had a similar problem or has a answer to this problem.

Thanks Grimm

[grimm08]

I have an answer and workaround for anyone who stumbles on this post.

Version 4 of NFS does not use your gid/uid for permissions instead it looks in the password/group file for valid users. Which do not exist since I am using LDAP for authentication.

The workaround is to mount your shares using version 3 of nfs, note this will require you to open additional ports in the firewall (udp and tcp).

Does anyone know a way to user version 4 and force it to use uid/gid instead of its defaults?