NFS - Groups

[Nobody's Hero]

Are there any options for nfs server handing out nfs mounts that will help control group access. We have no problems controlling user, but when it comes to people in a group that are not part of the user and settings are 770, we get permission denied.

[Steven E. Protter]

Are you saying that people in the group are being denied with permissions 770?

If so, take a look at the permissions on the folder itself.

If you export a directory /steveissleepy

ll -d /steveissleepy

chmod o+xr /steveissleeply

You may need to run exportfs -a again, but I'm not sure about that last part.

SEP

[Nobody's Hero]

yes correct.

nfs server is handing out as:
drwxrwxr-x 2 psfin samba 96 Oct 24 09:57 bogusdir

and nfs client is:

drwxrwx--- 2 psfin samba 17 Oct 24 09:19 bogus_fsintfc


and I am in the samba group, but still get permission denied when I try to write(create), but I can mount it and cd to that dir ok. Just cant create.

[Helen French]

How did you export the directories from NFS server? Is it read only (/etc/exports)? Are there any other restrictions specified?

# man exports

[Nobody's Hero]

/etc/exports looks like:

/app/bogusdir

no parms or acces parms.

[Helen French]

Couple of tries:

1) Add option '-rw=client_host_name' and/or option '-access=client_host_name' in exports file and try re-exporting it (exportfs -a).

2) Just try re-exporting the nfs directories.

3) Install all NFS patches.