<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Shlomo Solomon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shlomo.solomon@gmail.com">shlomo.solomon@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Friday 09 July 2010, shimi wrote:<br>
> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Shlomo Solomon ><br>
</div><div class="im">> 1. Change all_squash to root_squash in /etc/exports<br>
> 2. Run exportfs -a<br>
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</div>Bingo - thanks<br>
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I'm curious as to why this happened. As I wrote, I don't think I changed<br>
anything except for updating my wifes' machine. Is it possible that something<br>
changed in the NFS client (the upgrade on my wifes machine was from Mandriva<br>
2007.1 to 2010.0)?<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>As you've noticed, to fix this, you chaged the server, not the client. The client didn't have any issue here.<br><br>From "man exports":<br>
<br> all_squash<br> Map all uids and gids to the anonymous user. Useful for NFS-exported public FTP directories, <br> news spool directories, etc. The opposite option is no_all_squash, which is the default setting.<br>
<br>Not too surprisingly, the NFS server mapped your wife's UID to... the anonymous user.<br><br>Quoting from your original e-mail:<br><br>Permissions seem OK. Here's an example of a file in
/public/share_all/shoshana<br>
-rwxr-xr-x 1 shoshana shoshana 168448 2009-01-05 07:09 test.doc*<br><br>What permission do you see for the anonymous user? (e.g. "other") ? r-x ... which is... read-only.<br><br>If your /etc/exports was not changed, and always worked like that, I cannot explain this. Side of perhaps having a uid match between the anon NFS user (on the NFS server) and you wife's uid...<br>
<br>-- Shimi<br></div></div><br></div>