[Gllug] NFS mount permissions

[Dylan]

On Friday 30 January 2004 13:20 pm, Tom Schutzer-Weissmann wrote:
> I'm trying to mount an nfs share so that a local user on "popcorn"
> can have access to "his" remote home directory (on "lisa"), but I
> can't get the permissions right.
>
> /etc/exports is
> /   popcorn(rw)

It's not wise to export the whole root fs like this - all sorts of 
things can go wrong. If it's only the home directory you want to use on 
the other machine then try:

/home/<user> popcorn(rw,no_all_squash)

The no_all_squash option ensures the UID and GID of the user are applied 
rather than mapped to 'nobody'.

>
> and I mount it with
> mount lisa: /mnt/lisa

That should be

mount -t nfs lisa:/ /mnt/lisa

or in my example:

mount -t nfs lisa:/home/<user> /mnt/lisa

>
> As root on popcorn I can see the contents of / but no subdirs. As
> another user I can't see a thing.

The nfs only exports one fs at a time, so if you have (e.g.) /home on a 
separate partition to / then it will appear empty.

Dylan

>
> Help much appreciated!
> TSW
>
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