[Gllug] WTF!! More nfs woes - write permission denied on 2 of 3 dirs that previously worked.

[M.Blackmore]

HELP! I'm being shouted at by the wife over this one. Two out of three 
nfs exports to the desktop from the venerable pII server will not allow 
me to write. In a terminal I'm warned of a read only filesystem, in a 
kde filer it just says cannot write.

I rejigged the directory structure on the desktop for the nfs exports to 
make it a lot neater, scrupulously set permissions with recursive mode 
for the local machine target for the nfs client. These and the 
permissions on the fileserver have been checked a dozen times, chown and 
chmoded run a score times I bet by now.

The target directories were to be /home/a-user/Documents (following the 
Suse 9.0 default for documents); ~/houses and ~/public_html (another 
suse default directory). These all were working fine before.

As far as I can tell all the target directories and the server 
directories are exactly the same user, group IDs and the same 
permissions (run now multiple times carefully coordinated).

BUT only one directory - ~/houses - is allowing writes. ~/Documents and 
~/public_html are not allowing writes tho' I can see what is there. 
Which end is the problem - server or client? How can there still be 
permissions restrictions on filesystems that have been repeatedly 
chmoded and chowned from root?

This is urgent to sort out - wife works from home! - so please if anyone 
can give me an idea as to what the hell is going on with this write problem!

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