SUMMARY: Permissions on NFS mounted directories

From: Mark `Hex' Hershberger (mah@eecs.tulane.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 21 1996 - 13:39:18 CST


Thanks to:

Andy `speed-racer' Wagliardo <awagliar@hubcap.core-dump.com>,
"Cristian Martinez T." <spy@inf.utfsm.cl>
Ian Camm <icamm@sse.eu.sony.co.jp>,
Jay Holt <jholt@pdc.com>,
Richard Snyder <rsnyder@eos.hitc.com>,
rnapholz@is.usp.com

for their responses. (I appoligize if I missed someone.)

None of the suggestions worked (and the only one not taken care of below
was to verify that the permissions on the mount points matched -- they
did.)

The problem auto-magically disappeared today. Strange.

Again. Thanks for your help. My original two postings follow:

> > On machines X and Y, I have mounted a directory (/dir) from machine Z. On
> > X and Z, I can read the sub-directories of /dir, but on Y, I can't. Any
> > ideas?
> >
> > Solaris 2.5
> > NIS+
>
> Doing "df -k" on Y shows
>
> z:/dir ....
>
> The problem comes when I try to access any subdirectory of /dir on Y. On
> X, Y, and Z, I can see the contents of the mounted directory:
>
> > ls /dir
> subdir1 subdir2 subdir3
>
> and on X and Z, I can see the contents of the subdirectories:
>
> > ls /dir/subdir1
> [ ... ]
> [contents]
> [ ... ]
>
> But on Y, I cannot.
>
> > ls /dir/subdir1
> /dir/subdir1: Permission denied
>
> I know that NIS+ is not messed up (nor are my credentials) because I can
> see the password field in the passwd table.
>
> The contents of my dfstab file:
>
> share -F nfs -o secure,rw=x:y,root=x:y /dir
>
> I hope this new information helps.

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 Mark `Hex' Hershberger `\< New Orleans, LA (
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