Not seeing cdrom files

[Greg69]

Hi Forum!!

Having an issue here. I have a cd which is remotely mounted on a different system. I can list the directories remotely but there are no files underneath them when I know perfectly well that they should be. I should mention that this is on a Sun box running Solaris 9. Do all the recommed Sun "standard stuff' works to the point of beable to mount the cdrom remotely and list the directories. But wehn I cd to anyone of the directories, nada files. Help and thanks.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

The post obvious thing to check would be the permissions on the directories. What does an ls -l /cdrom (or whatever the mountpoint is reveal). Another "gotcha" is that the mountpoint itself might very restrictive permissions eventhough the mounted filesystem does not. I would start by umount'ing the NFS mount and having a look at those permissions. Next unexport the filesystem on the remote box and then umount the cdrom and have a look at those mountpoint permissions. Also, are the files perfectly visible to a normal user on the box where they are local? This would help to narrow down the differences to local or NFS scope.

[Greg69]

Thank you for the reply. Yes it appears to be a permissions issue but why? There are only 3 of us who access these machines and we all have and use root. From my understanding, these Suns, 12 total, were pull out of the box and had software slapped on it by my two co-workers who, like me, are application engineers not UNIX admins. Unfortunately, these machines are now deployed so this is the first attempt at doing this. When I mention mount points and NFS permissions, they gave me the same "deer looking into the headlights" look that I had when I read your response. I wouldn't think Sun would put such restrictions on every machine they ship but I could be wrong. This probably isn't the correct Forum to be asking these sort of questions I know but I am trying to install NNM software :)

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Well, if you are not going to investigate the things I suggested then I don't know how to help you. You should note that just because you are root on a local host; root access is not carried across NFS mounts. In fact, you must explicitly allow root access on the system doing the NFS export.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

By the way, contrary to your thinking, you just might have access to these files if you try to access them as a regular (non-root) user.