[mythtv-users] NFS mount problems

[Joey Morris]

Kevon <mythtv at reidsresidence.com> wrote on Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 05:27:15PM -0500:
> On 01/01/2013 04:48 PM, Mark Pennock wrote:
> > I am trying to mount a remote directory for my videos folder and I cant get
> > it to work. The problem is that when I mount it the owner and group get
> > changed to pulse  rtkit, respectively. I can't figure out why this is
> > happening.
> > 
> > I am using webmin to do the mounting. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> > 
> 
> The owner and group will be based on the uid and gid respectly, which
> will reflect what is set on the remote directory. Therefore, if the
> remote system has the user set to myth with uid 100, the local system on
> which you are mounting the directory should have the same user
> assignment. However, if the local system has the user pulse with uid
> 100, then the directory will be listed with pulse as the owner. Run `id
> <id name>` or check /etc/passwd for assigned uid and check /etc/group
> for the list of assigned group ids on both systems.
> 
> You can change the uid and gid with the usermod command. Note, if you do
> change the uid or gid, you will need to update all the current files
> owned by the user to the new uid and gid (I think the files in the $HOME
> are changed automatically, but you should check the man pages to
> confirm). The commands:
> find / -uid <uid num> -xdev -exec chown <user> '{}' \;
> find / -gid <gid num> -xdev -exec chgrp <group> '{}' \;
> 
> (-xdev is used to prevent descending to directories on other
> filesystems. If you do not have any NFS filesystem mounted and you are
> sure you want to check all local filesystems, then remove -xdev)

I may be remembering this incorrectly, but I think you can edit some
NFS config files to tell it to translate the UIDs and GIDs for you.
That way you can have different UIDs assigned to users on the two
systems. I'd look into those options before changing your UIDs.