NFS Permissions Question

[Preet Dhillon]

I have an HP-UX directory exported by NFS to all other machines on my network. The entry in /etc/exports looks like this :

islv/archive -anon=65534

This directory is mounted on a Windows NT client. When files are copied to this directory on the Windows client, they appear on the HP side with read-only permissions. I want to change this so that any files copied from the NFS client side appear on the Unix side with permissions
rwxrwxr--.
Anyone out there know how to do this ?
Many thanks in advance.

[Dan Hetzel]

Hi Preet,

I'm not sure that having the execute bit set by default would be a good idea.
Default permission of 664 (-rw-rw-r--) would be more adequate.

Dan

[Patrick Wallek]

I think permissions for files copied into the NFS directory from Windows my be determined by whatever NFS client you are using on Windows. I haven't played with NFS on Windows in 3 years or more, but I seem to recall that there was an option on the NFS client I was using to set the permissions for files.

[Rainer_1]

when mounting NFS from a windows based system there has to be a third party software like reflection or eXceed.
You have to look on the windows system at the options of that software for file creation bit masks.

[Dan Hetzel]

Hi again,


Patrick and Rainer are right. There is no kind of a 'default umask' for files created by a non-unix box. You'll have to set the file permissions at the client side.

Best regards,

Dan