NFS – Mapping UID and GID of Local User to Mounted NFS Share

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I have a server with NFSv4.
I am mounting contents of the home folder of remote user to local host.
Able to read and write contents, but when I am checking ownership of files at the mounted volume from the local host, they all belongs to corresponding remote user and group (512).
Is there any way to make it look like they belong to the local user and group (1000) on the local host?

/etc/exports on remote host (IP is 192.168.1.110)

/home/user512 192.168.1.142(rw,sync,all_squash,anonuid=512,anongid=512)

/etc/fstab on local host (IP is 192.168.1.142)

192.168.1.110:/home/user512    /home/localuser/projects/project512   nfs    rw,hard,intr,rsize=32768,wsize=32768    0       0

Best Answer

This is what idmapping is suppose to do. First of all, enable is on the client and server:

# echo N > /sys/module/nfs/parameters/nfs4_disable_idmapping

clean idmap cache and restart idmap daemon:

# nfsidmap -c
# service rpcidmapd restart

Now on server and the client will send instead of numeric IDs string principals like bob@YOURDOMAIN.COM. You need to have bob account on the both hosts - client and server. Nevertheless, the numeric ID's can be different.

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