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a group name string. It then checks to make sure that its NFS domain is the

same as the requester’s NFS domain. In this case they are the same, so the

server can go ahead and send the owner and group strings across to the client.

The client translates the strings back to UID/GID using its user registry, which

may not be the same as the server’s, and reports that information back to the

requesting process.

The ls -n output would appear similar to this:

-rw-r--r-- 1 200 20 255 Aug 11 11:05 myfile

If an ls -l command was issued, the client would take the UID/GID information

and translate it back to names, resulting in output similar to:

-rw-r--r-- 1 sally hr 255 Aug 11 11:05 myfile

Single NFS domain ...