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  • NFS UID mapping without NIS – how to achieve that? is NFS weaker there than AFS and Samba?

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_File_System = NFS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Information_Service = NIS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_File_System = AFS (Mac OS X) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIFS AKA SMB AKA Samba https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_security#Root_squash – re “root=…” http://linux.die.net/man/5/exports – /etc/exports My (reduced) I.T. landscape: a Synology DiskStation NAS (with some Linux and “Busybox”) functions as an NFS server an openSUSE Linux VM is the relevant NFS client – the other clients don’t use NFS but AFS (for…

  • O’Reilly Media book: Managing NFS and NIS, 2nd Edition

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    http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565925106.do From the publisher: A modern computer system that’s not part of a network is even more of an anomaly today than it was when we published the first edition of this book in 1991. But however widespread networks have become, managing a network and getting it to perform well can still be a problem.Managing…