Mixing NIS and non-NIS environments

I just deployed a RHEL3 server that will be used by a minimal amount of
users (<10), so I created local accounts. There is a need for an NFS
mount to another server (mounted RW). Problem is that the server where
the NFS share resides uses NIS. So, UIDs don't match and all you see is
UIDs and GIDs instead of owners/groups of files/directories on that
share. Without making my new server a part of that NIS domain (long
story, but it would be difficult to do so), is there any other way
around this? Thought about changing UIDs on my local machine to match
what's in NIS....but then I would have to do the same for groups,
correct?
Am I going about this all wrong?

jdm wrote:
> I just deployed a RHEL3 server that will be used by a minimal amount of
> users (<10), so I created local accounts. There is a need for an NFS
> mount to another server (mounted RW). Problem is that the server where
> the NFS share resides uses NIS. So, UIDs don't match and all you see is
> UIDs and GIDs instead of owners/groups of files/directories on that
> share. Without making my new server a part of that NIS domain (long
> story, but it would be difficult to do so), is there any other way
> around this? Thought about changing UIDs on my local machine to match
> what's in NIS....but then I would have to do the same for groups,
> correct?
> Am I going about this all wrong?
>
If you are going to go for any site-wide network administration system
(like NIS or LDAP), you are going to need common UIDs for users and GIDs
for groups, so why not do it now?

Robert