Re: NFS permissions question

2004-11-18 Thread Joost Witteveen
Christian Convey wrote: My understanding of NFS permissions is that for any file appearing on an NFS share, the username/uid and groupname/gid mappings should (ideally) be identical on both the NFS client and the NFS server. So consider my home situation: I'm running two computers, each with lo

Re: NFS permissions question

2004-11-16 Thread Shaul Karl
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 02:01:02PM -0500, Christian Convey wrote: > My understanding of NFS permissions is that for any file appearing on > an NFS share, the username/uid and groupname/gid mappings should > (ideally) be identical on both the NFS client and the NFS server. > > So consider my home

Re: NFS permissions question

2004-11-16 Thread CW Harris
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 02:01:02PM -0500, Christian Convey wrote: > My understanding of NFS permissions is that for any file appearing on an > NFS share, the username/uid and groupname/gid mappings should (ideally) > be identical on both the NFS client and the NFS server. > > So consider my home

Re: NFS & Permissions

1997-12-11 Thread Matthew Tebbens
I was using root at first. After checking with other users I did notice that only root was not allowed. Now by adding no_root_squash everything works fine ! Thanks. On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Matthew Tebbens wrote: > > > > I would like to mount one of my servers and have t

Re: NFS & Permissions

1997-12-11 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Matthew Tebbens wrote: > > I would like to mount one of my servers and have that server > allow access from the requesting uid/gid just as if it were > local possible ? > If so, how would I specify that in /etc/exports ? > > (As root on the remote system, I would like access to root files >