On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 09:55, Jeff Vian wrote: > If you read the manpage on exports, the section on user id mapping might > prove useful. > > It also helps to read all the related man pages for something you are > doing. (nfs, fstab, exports, mount, ets) I should try and do this more. I find though that for a linux novice the manpages seem to assume quite a high level of background linux knowledge. In short, I often don't understand them ;) > > You can try setting it up so the users home directory is mounted by that > user when they login. (export each users home directory from the > server). Use an option such as "user" or "users" in the fstab entry so > it gets the users permissions and access at mount time. > I've been using autofs to do the mounting so far. Maybe I'm missing an option in the auto.* file. More investigation needed.