It's been years since I set the NFS up, so I'm a little rusty but re-reading up on it, seems a root owned export dir with sticky bit combined with the root_squash is a security feature disallowing client root from having root priv's on the server
setting the top-level export dir as root-owned and sticky is on a fair few NFS howto docs around the web -- Unable to mount NFS shares https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/604407 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs