[PLUG] UID width question

[Eric Pratt]

Is smb running on both machines?  If so, use smbmount.  with it, you can
use the '-U' option to specifiy a user name to get around the UID
problem.  I am not sure how to get around the problem using NFS.

Eric

On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 he@expert.cc.purdue.edu wrote:

>       Hi, I faced a problem when trying to mount Solaris NFS
> export to linux. My UID in Solaris is larger than 65535, but
> it looks like linux's uid width is 16bit , so that it's impossible
> for me to set up correct UID to mount the Solaris filesystem.
>         Is there a way to get around this problem? Thank you!
>  
> Kevin                 
> 
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