mounting NFS directory with read write access

[Michael E. Maher]

On Wed, 2013-02-27 at 14:52 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-02-27 at 18:35 +0000, Michael E. Maher wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On Wed, 2013-02-27 at 11:57 -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > > Thanks again, Michael!
> > 
> > No problems :-)
> > 
> > > I think this may well be the problem. The server is a RHEL and has the
> > > following for ID:
> > > 
> > > uid=34533(maitra) gid=101(Domain Users) groups=101(Domain Users),100287
> > > (dirusers)
> > > 
> > > That last is the group for me an user.
> > > 
> > > I am not sure how possible it is to change the owner on the remote
> > > server (not sure what it will affect).
> > 
> > Ah, that would be the problem then. The two accounts need the same
> > 'uid'. You'll have to think about the best way to solve this in your
> > case. Maybe the easiest way would be to change the uid/gid of the user
> > on the client system and chown your files with the new uid/gid (just
> > make sure you have access to another account on the system, otherwise
> > you could lock yourself out).
> 
> He also needs to make sure the server is exporting the filesystem
> read/write. The default is read-only (see exports(5)).
> 
> poc
> 

Good spot :-)

Ranjan, maybe let us take a look at the /etc/exports file on the server.
Though I'm guessing others are using the same server by the sound of
your last mail?


Thanks,
Michael