[ale] Writing to NFS

Dow Hurst dhurst at kennesaw.edu
Tue Nov 11 16:04:13 EST 2003


Sorry about not having a quick answer here.  Have you successfully 
mounted a filesystem from the server in any form onto your workstation 
in the past?  And, finally, what kernel versions are on each machine?
Dow


David Corbin wrote:

>On Tuesday 11 November 2003 13:26, James P. Kinney III wrote:
>  
>
>>On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 13:05, David Corbin wrote:
>>Make the files on the server owned by the user nfsnobody (double check
>>that user exists in /etc/passwd). NFS doesn't care who is logged in,
>>only what process is being used to access the files. That process is
>>owned by either nobody of nfsnobody.
>>    
>>
>
>I can't do that.  It's my friggin' home directory.  The error is that the 
>*file-system* is not writable.  And my nfs process (rpc.nfsd) is running as 
>root.
>
>  
>
>>>I'm not worried about the exec option.    I really only need to read and
>>>write files here.  Only read is working.
>>>      
>>>
>
>  
>

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