On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 22:38 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 12:51 +0100, roland wrote: > > When I try to > > ls /mnt/fed42 > > I get no permission > > That might be two things: I agree with wha is below but I would also be interested what the mount command returns on the client . Is the directory mounted? > > Needing to be the root user to do the mount. > > The files are owned by a different user on the other side of the > network. It goes by the numerical user id, not the name. Try "ls -n" > on both sides, see if you get the same numbers where your usename would > usually be. > > -- > [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr > 2.6.23.1-10.fc7 i686 i386 > > Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. > I read messages from the public lists. > > > -- ======================================================================= The British are coming! The British are coming! ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx