chown'd the drive to users:users
then chmod'd the drive to 555
all works
sorry bout the repost
thank you
eric


Eric Clover wrote:
> 
> OK!!
> that got it mostly working.
> thank you for the help.
> i can access the nfs drive from box2 now, but only as root.
> all the all_squash and no_squash stuff is also a little confusing to me
> also though.
> i have a normal user with the uid/gid of 500 that i want to have access
> to the nfs mounted drive, well for that fact, i'd like to enable any/all
> users on box2 to be able to acces the drive.
> i know it has to be a real simple line of text that i am missing and do
> not fully nderstand how to get it to work.
> root can access the nfs mounted drive, but i want al users on box2 to
> have access(read only) to the nfs drive.
> thank you
> eric
> 
> p.s. Hidong : thank you for the help, didnt know about the nfs script,
> that really helped!! =8^)
> 
> Hidong Kim wrote:
> >
> > When I upgraded from 5.2 to 6.1, I had to add this line to my
> > /etc/hosts.allow to get nfs to work:
> >
> > ALL             :       192.168.0.
> >
> > My four 6.1 machines have local IP addresses 192.168.0.x.  I restart nfs
> > with the nfs script in /etc/rc.d/init.d.  Good luck,
> >
> > Hidong
> >
> > Eric Clover wrote:
> > >
> > > i have a simple network set up.
> > > i just want to give my masq'd box access & have read perms to a
> > > drive/folder that is on this box.
> > > i have become very confused after reading the nfs, exportfs, mount and a
> > > few other man pages.
> > > is there a simple non confusing way to get this to work??
> > > i have what i think is the right setup, but i get :
> > >
> > > [root@masq'dbox bigb]# mount 192.168.1.1:/dir /home/bigb/dir
> > > mount: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused
> > >
> > > and have this in the /etc/exports file:
> > >
> > > /dir    masq'dbox(ro,no_root_squash)
> > >
> > > and did a exportfs -r
> > >
> > > anything i might be missing/doing wrong??
> > > i have saved old emails in regards to this subject and got this far, but
> > > none of them covered this error.
> > > thank you
> > > eric
> > >
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