unable to read from the file

[Atil Volkan Yildirim]

hi,
the file manager of CDE gives a message when i try to open a file:
"unable to read from the file"
i checked the permissions,
and they're ok...i cannot read even while i am root user...
any idea?
by the way, the directory is an NFS mounted file system!

thx...

[Atil Volkan Yildirim]

an ack:
i can read the file via vi or more, etc...

[Leif Halvarsson_2]

Hi,
You perhaps don't have root permissions for this filesystem on the NFS server. This is set in the /etc/exports file on the server.
Example:
/exports/opt -anon=65534,root=fem8:fem6

[Atil Volkan Yildirim]

nope,
i have all the permissions ok...

[Leif Halvarsson_2]

Hi,
Can you make a copy of the file ?
Try to do this and see if you get the same behaviour. If not, delete the original file and rename the copy to the original name.

[RikTytgat]

Hi,

Have you logged into CDE with root user? It is the user you logged in with that starts the CDE file manager, so it is that user that cannot access the file, not root.

Bye,
Rik

[Atil Volkan Yildirim]

hi,
this doesn't work...
also, i moved the file to a
local filesystem, it didn't work either,
it's so much interesting!
no file under nfs mounted filesystem works...even if i copy them to a local filesystem.. but i can esit all of them with vi...

[Atil Volkan Yildirim]

hi,
i am logging out and then logging in with different users...i am not trying within the same session...

[Atil Volkan Yildirim]

oops,
i noticed something...
i cannot read the files on the nfs server, too...

??
however, everything seems ok...

[James Odak]

check the permissions of the file and directory on the server that is exporting the NFS mount not on the server mounting/importing the NFS mount


Jim

[Steven E. Protter]

If you can, restart both servers.

NFS may be hosed. ps -ef | grep nfsd for the daemon.

If you can't do a restart, you should try this.

/sbin/init.d/nfs.core stop
/sbin/init.d/nfs.server stop
/sbin/init.d/nfs.core start
/sbin/init.d/nfs.server start

on the server.

You might want to do the same thing for client on the client.

If other NFS connects are working, you might want to reread the prior suggestions and try exportfs -a again after checking /etc/exports

Then get more basic, make sure you have solid ping connectivity between the servers. A network address conflict could be causing issues.

P