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

[Dave Mitchell <davem [at] xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 01:35:35PM +0000, James Wallbank wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I'm getting increasingly mystified. /etc/mtab on the hosts shows that
> 192.168.1.2:/home IS mounted rw, and even a little-used user who is sure
> not to have exceeded quota can't log in. I had wondered whetehr there
> was a subtle incompatibility between this Mandrake 9.0 NFS server and
> our Mandrake 8.2 clients... Maybe something to do with different UIDs
> and GIDs for some behind-the scenes KDE machanism? So I tried a Mandrake
> 9.0 client - with the same disappointing results.

Couple of suggestions. Is the underlying (ie empty) /home directory
read-only? I don't know about Linux, but certainly a lot of SVR4 Unices
have the mounted directory 'inherit' the permissions of the underlying
mount point.

Secondly, run tcpdump and look at the NFS traffic between the client and
server to determine whether it's the server generating the error.

Dave.

PS I haven't been following this thread closely, so I may be talking
through my derierre!

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