User IDs and Group IDs

[BrianOBrien]

Mac users have user names, user IDs and group IDs.
Assuming they are reading/writing data over an afp connection, should/must the user name, user ID and group ID be the same on FreeNAS as they are on the mac they are logged into?

 

[ProtoSD]

They don't have to be, but it makes things a little cleaner if you can. It won't hurt anything if you don't. I think AFP has it's own set of permissions.

 

[louisk]

AFP does not require matching UID/GID. However, if you have any intent in making use of NFS in the same environment, it would likely make things easier to plan on the same UID/GID up front because NFS does require it.