> There's also questions of case sensitivity, locking, being mounted at
> boot time rather than login time, accomodating more than one user.
> I've also heard SMB is far slower.
> 
> The Macs I've switched to automounted NFS are causing me less trouble.
> 
> If you are in a ``share almost everything'' situation, just add
> 
>  umask 000
> 
> to /etc/launchd.conf and reboot.

How are you managing UID's on the NFS server?  If user eharvey connects to
server from client Mac A, or Mac B, or Windows 1, or Windows 2, or any of
the linux machines ... the server has to know it's eharvey, and assign the
correct UID's etc.  When I did this in the past, I maintained a list of
users in AD, and duplicate list of users in OD, so the mac clients could
resolve names to UID's via OD.  And a third duplicate list in NIS so the
linux clients could resolve.  It was terrible.  You must be doing something
better?

How do you manage your NFS exports?  Do all the clients have static assigned
IP's, or do you simply export to the whole subnet, or do you do something
else?  I would consider it a security risk, if any schmo could take any
unused IP address, connect to the server, and claim to be eharvey without
any problem.

Also, I had a umask problem, which presumably you've got solved by the
launchd.conf edit.  Presumably this umask applies, whether you create a
folder in Finder, or create a file in MS Word, or save a new text file from
TextEdit ... The umask is applied to every file and every folder creation,
regardless of which app is doing the creation, right?

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