CHOWN 11.00 FAILS OVER NFS 11.31

[Mario Cárdenas]

Hi.

I have an NFS exported on an 11.31 server. This NFS is mounted on an 11.0 server. Both sides haver read/write access, but a "chown" comand fails with ": Not owner" message.

Thank you for you help!.

Chao.

[Paul Cross_1]

How is it exported? Who owns the directory?

If the share is a root-owned directory and you want root to have privileges on the nfs client side, you will need to export it as such: root=.


HTH

-paul

[Dennis Handly]

Who is the owner and who is trying to change it?
If not root, does that user have chown permission on the server? See setprivgrp(1M).

[Mario Cárdenas]

Hi.

Source server (11.31):

# more /etc/dfs/sharetab
/aixlis - nfs rw
# ls -ld /aixlis
drwxrwxrwx 4 tronweb usuarios 5120 Jul 25 15:41 /aixlis
# grep tronweb /etc/passwd
tronweb:G7xrai6lw9/QQ:203:200:,,,:/opt/tronweb:/usr/bin/sh
# uname -a
HP-UX mls02-ne B.11.31 U ia64 ******* unlimited-user license
#

Target server (11.11):

# ls -ld /mls02newaixlis
drwxrwxrwx 4 tronweb usuarios 5120 Jul 25 15:41 /mls02newaixlis
#
# more /etc/dfs/sharetab
/etc/dfs/sharetab: No such file or directory
# ls -ld /aixlis
/aixlis not found
# grep aixlis /etc/fstab
mls02pri:/aixlis /mls02newaixlis nfs rw,suid 0 0
# ls -ld /mls02newaixlis
drwxrwxrwx 4 tronweb usuarios 5120 Jul 25 15:41 /mls02newaixlis
# grep tronweb /etc/passwd
tronweb:G7xrai6lw9/QQ:203:200:,,,:/opt/tronweb:/usr/bin/sh
# uname -a
HP-UX mls06 B.11.11 U 9000/800 ***** unlimited-user license
#

The owner is the same (even the UID & GID).

Also, logged as root on the target system, Iam unable to made the chown command.

Thank you

[Dennis Handly]

>Target server (11.11):

You mean client.

>The owner is the same (even the UID & GID).

The owner is the same only if the UID is the same.

>logged as root on the target system, I am unable to made the chown command.

Of course not, you have exported root as nobody. If you want root as root, you must export the file system with root=access_list:
http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60130/share_nfs.1M.html

That's why I asked if you tried using chown as tronweb. Of course root can always su to tronweb and do the chown.