Re: ownership on nfs-server



In comp.os.linux.networking Richard M?ller <r.mueller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi all,
> I have an NFS-server and want to use it as backup storage. Unfortunately I
> cannot access it from my other computer, configured as an nfs-client. As
> root (on the client) I can see the NFS-server's files (the server's
> filesystem is mounted to a directory on the client), but I can not write

Root isn't granted full access on a nfs share per default for
security reasons.

> to them. And as user on the client I can not even read the files. I have
> the same user names (and IDs) on the NFS-server and the client. How can I
> tell the server, that the client's users have write permissions on their
> directories on the server? (Actually, I have two users on the server, who
> should have their own directories).

Users *must* have the same UID and GID(s) over all systems to use
NFS probably, this sounds like your problem.

See NFS howto (www.tldp.org) and the docs already on your system:

man -k nfs
man mount

Good luck

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