Whil Hentzen wrote:
That's fairly normal. One way around it is to use automounter, so that
when the mount point is accessed, the nfs share is automatically
mounted, then unmounted after a period of inactivity. Regular users do
not need an additional rights for it.
I don't particularly like to do things 'to get around' issues; I'd
Well actually it's not "a get around" as in a hack. It's a perfectly
valid and commonly implemented mechanism :)
rather understand what's going on and why things are happening. The
troubleshooting page on tldp's NFS how-to alluded to a permission
problem where server and client uids and gids aren't matched, but mine are.
I assume you mean "aren't". I don't think that is the issue. I can mount
an NFS share from a solaris box here to the linux box as a regular user
and don't have a matching uid or gid on the solaris box. Although
obviously to preserve ownership you should.
I've done a look-see on some automount tutorials and howto's.... jeesh,
auto_direct, auto_master, blah blah blah. That seems to be a lot more
work to do something that oughta work just fine with fstab. :(
Here's an example that should work. You should adjust the options field
to something more suitable when you're happy (see mount(8) and nfs(5)
for various options) as this is just a base example to see if it works.
Obviously replace the name of my server, exports and mount points with
your equivalent.
nimo:/export /mnt/NIMO nfs user 0 0
This should allow you to mount "nimo:/export" as a regular user and be
automatically mounted on boot up.
You might also want to check that "netfs" is running on bootup.
chkconfig --list will tell you otherwise your nfs exports may not get
automatically mounted on bootup.
--
Ian Chapman.
