Strange Uid And Gid Numbers On Dell Nas System Files - Dell PowerVault NX3500 Administrator's Manual

Workaround

Strange UID and GID Numbers on Dell NAS System Files

Description
Cause
Workaround
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Troubleshooting
It is recommended that you use the NFS protocol interfaces to
access the PowerVault NX3500 FluidFS systems from Linux/UNIX
clients. To workaround this issue:
Ensure that your admin creates NFS exports to same locations
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that you use to access using CIFS and connect to them using
mount command from Linux/UNIX clients.
Use NFS based interfaces to access the PowerVault NX3500. For
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example, from the NAGIOS Linux management system, use the
/check_disk
/check_disk_smb
New files created from ubuntu 7.x clients get the UID and GID of
4294967294 (nfsnone).
By default, ubuntu 7.x nfs clients do not specify rpc credentials on
their nfs calls. As a result, files created from these clients, by any
user, are owned by 4294967294 (nfsnone) UID and GID.
To force UNIX credentials on nfs calls, add the sec=sys option to
the PowerVault NX3500 mounts in the ubuntu fstab file.
command instead of the
command.