[Sheflug] Exported filesystem permissions... Urgent Help Please!

[James Wallbank <james [at] xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Everyone,

Thanks for your suggestions re: my Caldera Horror. I just did a late
nighter (5:30am) to rebuild a new server. I've sorted out everything
except ONE PROBLEM - which should be a no-brainer, but I'm absolutely
zonked-out and I can't think of the answer.

NIS works - so the passwd and group files are being served out.
NFS works - so /home is exported to the network

However, when I log onto one of the clients as a normal user then I get
the message

"Could not write to $HOME. $HOME is a read only filesystem".

In my case, $HOME is /home/james which is correct.
Permissions for /home/james are 700 - and I'm the owner.
Permissions for /home are 711 - root is the owner.

I've tried 777 on both of these (simultaneously) with no joy. It still
says $HOME is a read-only filesystem.

The relevant bit of /etc/exports reads

/home 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 (rw)

Read and write, which should be good.

The relevant bit of /etc/fstab reads

/dev/hdc1 /home ext3 user,rw 1 2

This used to read 'defaults' but I changed it.

Please, please, please! What is the annoyingly small thing that I'm
overlooking? I have Access Space users here who can see their home
directories, but can't write to them. Argh! A fast response would be a
godsend.

Thanks in advance for your help,

James
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