[ale] Writing to NFS

[David Corbin]

On Tuesday 11 November 2003 15:59, Dow Hurst wrote:
> 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

It's not a crisis, just one more thing the long of line "things to get right".

2.4.19-pre7 on the server, and 2.4.19 on the client, in this case.

And no, I have mount anything between these two machines before, in the same 
relationship.  I have done numerous NFS mounts in my lifetime, though :)

>
> 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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David Corbin <dcorbin at machturtle.com>