On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Alexander Samad <a...@samad.com.au>
> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>


> I've lost track whether it's when you're mounting the serverA or
> serverB export that you're having the nobody problem but do you have
>
Okay maybe we leave that, i was trying to show I had the same setup on both
side, but one was working and 1 wasn't


> the same problem when mounting that export from another box? Do you
> have the problem when mounting via hostname and not via ip address?
>
i usually mount via hostname


>
> Are all your "Domain" values the same in all your boxes'
> "/etc/idmapd.conf"? Do they all have "Domain = abc.com.au" like the
> one that you posted earlier?
>

yep both idmapd.conf are meant to be the same

>
>
> >> Do "/var/log/messages" and a verbose mount give you any information on
> >> the failure?
>
no nothing


> >>
> > so i tried a mount -v ? is that what you meant by verbose, the only
> thing I
> > got was
> > Mar 20 13:37:27 max rpc.idmapd[19081]: nss_getpwnam: name 'nobody' does
> not
> > map into domain 'samad.com.au'
>
> You can use "-vvv" but it's pretty clear that you have an idmapd problem.
>
> I will try that thanks


>
> > got me thinking my nsswitch and some other libraries are not update on
> > server B this is the one serving up the bad mount
>
> Is "/etc/nsswitch.conf" the same on your two boxes? Does "getent
> hosts" list all of your hosts and their ip addresses? Can you query
> LDAP for hostnames on all your boxes?
>
yep and getent passwd and getent shadow and getent group are the same !


>
>
> >> (What's the "localdoman" variable in :/etc/idmapd.conf" for?)
> >
> > don't know !
>
> I've never seen "localdomain/localdoman" as an "/etc/idmapd.conf" stanza.
>
okay, I think it was in there as part of the default

I have to try and get the box to boot now, after the update to the kernal
and system files its not boot ;(

>
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