Hello.

I'm trying to connect via NFS to my company's server (they're running Redhat 9.0). I'm trying to connect using my laptop running MacOS X. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be working. The problem, as far as I can tell, is that my laptop user id (uid) is different from my uid on the server.

My IT people tell me that the 'best' solution is for me to create a new user account on my laptop with a uid that matches the one they have for me on the server and then transfer all of my work to this new user account. I'm trying to avoid this approach.

Is there anyway to make the server 'think' my laptop uid is the same as the one it already has for me?

All help is appreciated.
Thanks.

The closest thing to what you describe is the all_squash and anonuid arguments in the server's /etc/exports file. However, this is only for causing the server to "squash" ALL connections to the shared device down to a specific user id (anonuid) so if the share is for use by more than one user, it's no good. Other than that I can't think of anything that would allow the client to trick the server.

Yeah, I was afraid of that.

Thanks for your help though.

You should just be able to rename your current UID then as root - recursively chown your userfiles to that new id.