Re: Can't write to an nfs export

1999-07-05 Thread Gerhard Kroder
> And of course, see /usr/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz > My huge home network consists of 2 computers and even in this simple > situation nis is making life easier. ;-)

Re: Can't write to an nfs export

1999-07-04 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
> and don't forget user id mapping may confilct, too. > you will have to make > shure about same uid on both machines or on appropriate uid-mapping, see > manpage (mount, nfs ...) And of course, see /usr/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz My huge home network consists of 2 computers and even in this sim

Re: Can't write to an nfs export

1999-07-04 Thread Gerhard Kroder
Mark Brown wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 08:40:52AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > Yet when I try to create a directory or copy a file, etc I get > > "Permission Denied" errors. > > Are you trying to do this as root? As a security measure, NFS defaults > to converting all accesses from root

Re: Can't write to an nfs export

1999-07-03 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 08:40:52AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Yet when I try to create a directory or copy a file, etc I get > "Permission Denied" errors. Are you trying to do this as root? As a security measure, NFS defaults to converting all accesses from root to accesses from the user nobody.

Solved: Can't write to an nfs export

1999-07-03 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: > Yet when I try to create a directory or copy a file to a mounted nfs > directory, I get "Permission Denied" errors. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks! > Well, duh! I'm an idiot. I forgot to take into consideration the directory permissions/ownership of the exported nfs directo

Can't write to an nfs export

1999-07-03 Thread Kent West
Let me preface by saying I don't know what I'm doing By tinkering, I've been able to figure out how to make one of my linux boxes serve a(n) nfs volume(?), and to get the other box to mount that exported nfs volume. My exports file on the first box has the simple entry: / westk02(rw) which I