topic Re: NFS Mount in Operating System - HP-UX

NFS Mount

Justin_132 — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:46:17 GMT

Hi Admins,

I have mounted a filesystem thro' NFS in a client. Only the root is able to create files/direcs..inside this mountpoint in the client-side. When a normal user tried creating a file, Im getting permission denied. How can make all users in my NFS client to have permission for creating file/directories..

I have started nfs.core and nfs.server in the SERVER side and nfs.client in the CLIENT side. My entries inside the export file is
just /delta1.

Just-In

Re: NFS Mount

Geoff Wild — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:51:08 GMT

What are the permissions of the file system?

Rgds...Geoff

Re: NFS Mount

Victor BERRIDGE — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:52:06 GMT

Hi,
To me it looks more like the way you did the export, how did you configure in case of unknown ID? (root= UID 0 on ALL unix systems...)
I would believe in UID mismatch betweeen your 2 hosts...

All the best
Victor

Re: NFS Mount

Justin_132 — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:56:28 GMT

Hi Geoff,

My entries inside export file is

/delta1 -anon=2,access=crms

-Just-in

Re: NFS Mount

Dave Olker — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:01:18 GMT

Hi Justin,

When a root user creates a file in the NFS-mounted directory, what permissions do the created file have? Uid=2?

Back to Geoff's original question - what are the permissions of the exported directory on the NFS server? If you modify the directory permissions of the exported directory to 777 can non-root users then create files?

Dave

Re: NFS Mount

Justin_132 — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:17:59 GMT

Hi All,

Dave.. thxs to strike me chmod 777 folder in SERVER side. As I was just thinking all about doing diff options inside /etc/export file. Thxs guys.

Cheers...Just-In

Re: NFS Mount

Geoff Wild — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:19:46 GMT

Whoa - not 777!!!!!

Should be 775 - and make the group the same as the one the users are in :)

Rgds...Geoff

Re: NFS Mount

Dave Olker — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:22:12 GMT

Agreed.

The 777 was simply a test to see if the directory permissions were causing the problem. I wouldn't suggest leaving the directory with these permissions, but that's the quickest way to see if what you're battling is a problem caused by too restrictive directory permissions.

Dave