On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 16:38 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 16:21 -0700, Alex Dean wrote:
> > I have set up an Ubuntu file server on my home network. I have 2 OSX
> > workstations (mine and my wife's), and an Ubuntu laptop. We each have
> > an account on each computer. I'm trying to figure out how to allow my
> > user account on any computer to mount my home directory on the file
> > server, and to allow my wife's account on any computer mount her home
> > directory on the file server.
> >
> > I don't want to move our home directories entirely onto the
> > fileserver. Primarily we want to continue using the local machines as
> > we always have. We just want to add the ability to easily store files
> > on the network and have them accessible from any other machine.
> >
> > I have had no problems creating exports on the file server, and I've
> > had no problems mounting those exports from the client machines. The
> > problems thusfar have been uid mismatches. I could probably change
> > uids everywhere so they all match on all machines, but this seems 1.
> > klunky and 2. really insecure.
> >
> > I think there are ways to solve this kind of problem with Kerberos or
> > LDAP, but those are technologies I know very little about. If someone
> > could point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it. How
> > would you solve this problem? I'm happy to research and learn what I
> > need to learn, but I find I'm having a hard time even getting started.
> ----
> I like LDAP but most would probably consider this overkill for a home
> network.
>
> Apple starts numbering uid's at 500 (first user) and increments each new
> user from there. Ubuntu starts numbering users at 1000.
>
> The following link explains how you can change the uid #'s on the Macs
> to conform - this solved my particular problem on a network where some
> Macintosh users saving files on a Windows server would cause issues but
> the same principal applies. There are instructions for both Tiger and
> Leopard.
>
> http://www.makemacwork.com/office-2004-wont-save-to-server.htm
----
I should point out that my testing of NFS on Tiger were good until the
user actually tried to use NFS via the Macintosh GUI. There obviously is
a latency when copying/moving files via the Finder through NFS mounts
that didn't exist when simply using the terminal application and I found
that compiling and using 'Netatalk' (AFP over TCP) was a much better
solution for the Mac users. Perhaps Apple has fixed the problem in
Leopard but I would doubt it.
I do have another network where the users all have 'home' directories
which come from Netatalk automounts of a Linux server and authentication
(and obviously the uid's) are handled by LDAP but you really have to
want to do that as it wasn't simple to set up.
Craig
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