Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 22:39 +0200, Ambrogio wrote: >> Access rule are based on uid used on client at the mount time. >> If you use root on client (for example) to mount an export, tipically >> you can't access. > > That's never been my experience. Firstly, normally only the root use > can mount something. Secondly, when mounting a Linux file system over > NFS, the original ownership is maintained, but numerically: User 500 > remote is treated as user 500 local, so you better make sure that > usernames and user IDs match on both sides of the connection. > Also, local root is normally mapped to user nobody on the remote system unless the no_root_squash option in used. "man exports" for more information. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
