[ale] Writing to NFS

Jonathan Glass jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu
Tue Nov 11 14:27:11 EST 2003


On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 14:19, Geoffrey wrote:
> David Corbin wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 November 2003 13:00, Dow Hurst wrote:
> > 
> >>I've never seen that needed.  Are your UIDs and GIDs on each machine
> >>identical?  You could remove the noexec option as you probably do want
> >>to run scripts and such from that nfs mount.  I've done this type mount
> >>before but had the mount point owned by root so the local user couldn't
> >>remove it.
> >>Dow
> > 
> > 
> > I'm not worried about the exec option.    I really only need to read and write 
> > files here.  Only read is working.
> 
> is 'user=' a valid option for fstab?  I thought it was simply 'user' 
> Try changing user=blahblah to 'user'
> 
> One of my nfs mount entries:
> 
> denali:/share   /share  nfs 
> exec,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,retrans=12,intr,user

You are right about the user= option, but you can do a uid=500,gid=500
in /etc/fstab. 
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