mounting nfs with specific user id

[Conzar]

Is there anyway to mount a nfs partition with a specific userid and password?
If not, then can you use a local userid (for the client) and use NIS for just the NFS mounts?

Thanks

[alechiko]

I mount a networked storage device with these parameters in my /etc/fstab

[beandog]

If you mean mounting an NFS share and chowing the files to uid=xxx and gid=yyy then yes, you can.

man exports will explain it much better than me.
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[Conzar]

Sort of ---- basically there is a server with a user account that has specific permissions on the nfs. I have another machine with a different user id. What I want to do is to be able to mount the nfs partition with my local account but be able to have the permissions of my "network" account.

I was told that I can force both my local user id and my networked user id to match by chaning it in the password file (either on the server or local box). What do you think of this solution? Is there a better way of doing it?

[Conzar]

It looks like the samba stuff you posted should work; however, is there another way to provided the password so its not clear text?

[Conzar]

OK, I tried using samba and this is the error that I am getting.

sudo mount -t smbfs -o username=xxxx,password=xxxx //x.x.x.x:/shared /mnt/shared
Password:
27289: Connection to 192.168.2.126: failed

any thoughts?

[Conzar]

OK, I've got it all worked out.

The syntax for nfs is differnt then smba so its //server_name/shared_dir

so in the fstab file you can do this
//server_name/shared /mnt/shared smbfs username=xxx,rw,defaults,... 0 0

If you don't include a password, then when you go to mount it, the server will ask.

Also, having sudo is very helpfull so you don't have to switch to root to mount it.

Thanks for the help!