NFS

[Douglas Furlong]

On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 07:21 -0400, Littleguru wrote:
> OK , thanks
> I am going to create a group and add the users on that group .
This still may not work perfectly, I think you may still require the
user to be on both machines (at least an account with the same UID), but
I can't remember if the access restriction, is local or remote...

> but what is the difference between syn and rsync ?

I believe this is related to whether the data is sent straight to disc
or not.

man exports or man exportfs
That should give you much more info.

> 
> 
> 
> Douglas Furlong wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 07:01 -0400, Littleguru wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hi Douglas
> >>
> >>Thanks for the fast reply.
> >>I want to access to share files with a normal user , but
> >>how can I bypass the userid ? can I connect to sahred file system with a 
> >>user that has a different user id ?
> >>
> >>Thanks
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Can you not add a user to both systems (making sure there UID) is
> >correct, or create a group on both systems (again making sure the gid is
> >correct), and put the user in the group, and set the appropriate group
> >permissions?
> >
> >From rom a basic point of view.
> >
> >I do not believe there is any way, of having the system set up so that a
> >user that couldn't access the file on the server, can access it on the
> >lcient.
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Douglas Furlong wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 05:47 -0400, Littleguru wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>Hello
> >>>>
> >>>>I have created a nfs shared directory on my server ,and it mount 
> >>>>properly on my client station , but I can not go to mounted directory , 
> >>>>it says " permission denied "
> >>>>   
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>Are you trying to access the NFS share as the root user? If this is the
> >>>case you would have to use no_root_squash. However this is an incredibly
> >>>insecure thing.
> >>>
> >>>If you are not trying to access the share as root, then you have to make
> >>>sure that both on the client AND the server, there is a user with the
> >>>same UID (not just username).
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> 
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Douglas Furlong
Systems Administrator
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