Re: New to Cygwin - Problems with Cygwin NFS

[Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please at cygwin dot com>]

At 02:17 AM 7/7/2005, you wrote:

<Reformatted top post>


>ohaya wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I've been trying to configure Cygwin NFS running on a Windows 2003
>> Server machine (machine: testwin2k3) to export directories so that I can
>> eventually use these directories as home directories on Solaris
>> machines.
>> 
>> I got Cygwin and Cygwin NFS installed, and somewhat working, but am
>> having problems with the uids of files being created on the NFS
>> directories.

<snip>

>> However, if I try to create a file after "su - jim1", the uid on the
>> file is set to nobody (uid=18?).  


UID 18 on Windows maps to the SYSTEM user.  I'm guessing that you're running
the services as SYSTEM then.


>>The gid seems to be ok, it's just the
>> uid on the files that seems to be wrong.
>> 
>> I've tried to add a "map_static=/etc/nfs/server.map-jim1":
>> 
>> /hometest/jim1  192.168.0.201(rw,map_static=/etc/nfs/server.map-jim1)
>> 
>>  where the /etc/nfs/server.map-jim1 file has:
>> 
>> uid     18      1000
>> gid     1000    1000
>> uid     1000    1000
>> gid     1000    1000
>> 
>> but, to no avail.
>> 
>> I've also tried setting "anonuid=1000,anongid=1000", but got the same
>> results.
>>


I would think this should work fine, with the caveat below.


> 
>I was just looking in /var/log/nfsd.log under Cygwin, and I am seeing
>lots of errors:
>
>auth_clnt.c 352 : Unable to seteuid(1000):  no such process


Wouldn't this be an indication of the known problem on W2K3 that
SYSTEM does not have permissions to change user contexts?  See 
'/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README' for some solution details.


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