[Gllug] NFS Export irregularity

[Dylan]

Hi Guys

My server exports two filesystems (each resident on separate physical disks.)
/etc/fstab (on the server) mounts them as follows:

/dev/hdb1	/private_exp	reiserfs	defaults	1 2
/dev/hdd1	/public_exp	reiserfs	defaults	1 2

/etc/exports (on the server) says:

/private_exp  <network_IP_addr>/<subnet mask>(rw,no_root_squash,no_all_squash)
/public_exp <network_IP_addr>/<subnet mask>(rw,no_root_squash,no_all_squash)

/etc/fstab (on a workstation) says:

<server IP addr>:/private_exp	/private_imp	nfs	defaults 0 0
<server IP addr>:/public_exp	/public_imp	nfs	defaults 0 0

On the server, the ownership and permissions are as follows:

		OWNER:GROUP  Permissions
/private_exp 	root:<private group name> drwxrwx---
/public_exp	root:users drwxrwx---

The server recognises and accesses these directories as expected. User and
group names and ID's are syncronised across the network (I have tripple
checked this.) When one of the workstations boots, it fails to mount
/private_exp (onto local /private_imp) with an 'RPC:connection refused'
error. /public_exp, however, is mounted correctly. I can manually mount the
un-mounted nfs volume (with mount -a, or mount /private_imp) after boot.

Does anyone have any idea what may be causing this?


On a different, but for me related, point - I want to have a set of users 
(the ones with access to the private directory above) who create files with 
rwxrwx--- permissions (I've set their default group to the one set up for the 
purpose). I've edited their ~/.bashrc scripts to give umask 007 (which I 
think thoud be right), and although a terminal window shows the correct 
permissions, any file created under KDE2 (directly by right click in a 
directory or indirectly in (for example) the text editor) has rw-r--r-- (I 
know the x permission is not present because it's not relevant to a 
non-execexutable/directory). So, how do I get the permissions assigned right? 
I need several users to be able to read and write some shared (but private to 
the group) files.

Any help would be appreciated.

Dylan

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