Salutations, Please respond to me directly since I've been removed from this alias.
I'm setting up a network talking to a Debian server. While I've managed to figure out many of the problems I am still entirely unable to give other systems write access to this system. I'm hoping it's due to one or two simple common issues. I have an intermittent permissions problem associated with pppd but I can't reproduce that one today. Here is the permissions problem I'm dealing with now. When a remote system (dilthey) mounts up my home directory from alpher (the Debian system) everything indicates it's r/w. For example: dilthey:~> mount /dev/hda2 on / type ext2 (rw) /dev/hda5 on /usr type ext2 (rw) /dev/hda6 on /usr/local type ext2 (rw) /dev/hda1 on /win32 type vfat (rw) /dev/hda7 on /workspace type ext2 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) automount(pid175) on /home type autofs (rw,fd=5,pgrp=175,minproto=2,maxproto=3) automount(pid186) on /apps type autofs (rw,fd=5,pgrp=186,minproto=2,maxproto=3) automount(pid196) on /mnt type autofs (rw,fd=5,pgrp=196,minproto=2,maxproto=3) alpher.taylors.org:/export/home/julian on /home/julian type nfs (rw,addr=172.16.0.1) and on alpher: alpher:~> cat /etc/exports # /etc/exports: the access control list for filesystems which may be exported # to NFS clients. See exports(5). /export/home (rw) /export/usr/dist (ro) and yet: dilthey:~> touch notion touch: notion: Operation not permitted dilthey:~> mkdir test mkdir: cannot make directory `test': Permission denied dilthey:~> A Sparcstation on the network shows the following snoopnetwork activity: 172.16.0.4 -> alpher.taylors.org NIS C DOMAIN taylors.org alpher.taylors.org -> 172.16.0.4 NIS R DOMAIN OK 172.16.0.4 -> alpher.taylors.org NFS C LOOKUP2 FH=42C9 notion alpher.taylors.org -> 172.16.0.4 NFS R LOOKUP2 OK FH=ACC9 172.16.0.4 -> alpher.taylors.org NFS C SETATTR2 FH=ACC9 alpher.taylors.org -> 172.16.0.4 NFS R SETATTR2 Not owner 172.16.0.4 -> alpher.taylors.org NFS C LOOKUP2 FH=42C9 test alpher.taylors.org -> 172.16.0.4 NFS R LOOKUP2 No such file or directory 172.16.0.4 -> alpher.taylors.org NFS C MKDIR2 FH=42C9 test alpher.taylors.org -> 172.16.0.4 NFS R MKDIR2 Permission denied 172.16.0.4 -> alpher.taylors.org NIS C DOMAIN taylors.org alpher.taylors.org -> 172.16.0.4 NIS R DOMAIN OK This looks like confusion over who I am but on dilthey, I get dilthey:~> ls -l notion -rw------- 1 julian users 16384 Jan 5 1997 notion dilthey:~> ypmatch julian passwd julian:x:501:100:Julian S. Taylor:/home/julian:/usr/bin/tcsh Any ideas? Julian
