If you follow all the "tutorials" and forum posts on the web, they leave you to believe that no_root_squash will solve all your problems - as used in this line from my 'server' side exports file.
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/share/z_nfs_test *(rw,sync,subtree_check,sec=sys,no_root_squash)
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mount -t nfs -O sec=sys,no_root_squash 192.168.0.66:/share/z_nfs_test /mnt/my__z_nfs_test
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[Translation]
Method = nswitch
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[General]
Verbosity = 0
Pipefs-Directory = /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs
# set your own domain here, if id differs from FQDN minus hostname
# Domain = localdomain
Verbosity = 0
Pipefs-Directory = /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs
Domain = localdomain
[Mapping]
Nobody-User = nobody
Nobody-Group = nogroup
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Method = nswitch
Apparently a lot of other distros have these lines in their default idmapd.conf, hence, for them it “just works”.
Perhaps we could also have these added to our LMDE distro. Or if not a comment saying what adding them would do.
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Roger