Hi all,
For some time already I have some annoying problem when mounting an NFS
partition.
A subdirectory on my server is exported to be used as an NFS mount on a
client PC (/opt/NFSHARE ).
Under NFShare is a subdirecory called Windows where I keep some legacy
stuff.
When mounting the NFSHARE on a client PC, I can browse & use the
different subdirectories under NFSHARE with the proper accounts,but I
cannot browse the Windows subdirectory.
This is what I get when I use stat to give me the details of the
directory on the server and the client :
output stat Windows on server :
File: `Windows'
Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 Directory
Device: 811h/2065d Inode: 2 Links: 5
Access: (0754/drwxr-xr--) Uid: ( 502/ marcb) Gid: ( 504/nfsusers)
Access: 2006-07-24 21:43:28.000000000 +0200
Modify: 2006-07-24 21:43:03.000000000 +0200
Change: 2006-07-24 21:43:03.000000000 +0200
output stat Windows on client PC :
File: `Windows'
Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 8192 directory
Device: 15h/21d Inode: 728879 Links: 2
Access: (0774/drwxrwxr--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 504/nfsusers)
Access: 2006-07-24 21:19:42.000000000 +0200
Modify: 2004-10-01 10:30:44.000000000 +0200
Change: 2004-10-01 10:30:44.000000000 +0200
My account details : marcb ; UID =502 ; NIS enabled and otherwise
working perfectly ; marcb is also member of group nfsusers )
One way or another, on the client PC, it seems as if the UID info
changed into that of root.
on the client PC, ls -al gives the following info :
drwxrwxr-- 2 root nfsusers 4096 Oct 1 2004 Windows
on the server, ls -al indicates my user account as the file owner :
drwxr-xr-- 5 marcb nfsusers 4096 Jul 24 21:43 Windows
When logged in as user marcb on the server I can browse the Windows
directory, but the directory remains empty when I try to browse it via
the client PC.
NIS and NFS otherwise seem to work perfectly.
Via SAMBA server & client setup I can browse & rw this directory without
problems. But as I no longer have PC's running Windows, SMB is no longer
running and I wish I could recuperate this diskspace for something else.
I can create directories and files in this Windows directory via the
client PC, but when looking for them on the server I cannot find them.
Does anybody have an idea how this can be ? and what needs to be done to
correct this ??
PS : that Windows directory is mounted as a separate fysical drive into
the filestructure on the server (mountpoint = /opt/NFSHARE/Windows ),
but I assume this has nothing to do with this problem.
Anyway, as soon as I can use this diskspace via NFS, I intend to use it
for more practical things than archiving material I don't use anymore....
Thanks,
Marc
