Since the UID and GID are automatically assigned when you create a new user on a local machine (System Preferences > Accounts), you will need a way to replicate the UID information across all local client machines. This will make it easier for the SAN to resolve UIDs to actual named users accessing the SAN. The main way to make sure UIDs are identical across your SAN client nodes is to create all users in the exact same order on all machines. This will insure that Albert, for example, is assigned a UID of 502 (the first Admin user is assigned 501 at initial configuration). Bonnie, the second user created, will be assigned a UID of 503. If you are consistent across all machines, you will have replicated the user list properly.
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