From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from netsonic.fi ([194.29.192.20] helo=nalle.netsonic.fi ident=root) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1ArUww-00058U-00 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 23:29:10 -0500 Received: from campus.local (qmailr@wanda69.adsl.netsonic.fi [81.17.192.69]) by nalle.netsonic.fi (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id i1D4T4w16377 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 06:29:04 +0200 Received: (qmail 7133 invoked by uid 1000); 13 Feb 2004 04:29:03 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Feb 2004 04:29:03 -0000 Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 06:29:02 +0200 (EET) From: Ari Moisio To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." In-Reply-To: <20040212204213.GT710@rednote.net> Message-ID: References: <20040212204213.GT710@rednote.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: NFS UID Problem X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list Reply-To: arimo@netsonic.fi, "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 04:29:10 -0000 Hi! Try these optionsin file /etc/exports at server side: all_squash makes all user appear as nobody at server side. or map_static lets you define each uid pairs in server and client side. HTH -- arimo On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Janina Sajka wrote: > I'm trying to allow an ordinary user to nfs mount a remote directory. I > have no problem getting mount to work for this user, but there's a > problem afterwards. The user can't write into the NFS mounted directory > even though it's mounted rw. It seems that the problem may be that this > user has a different UID on each machine. > > If I add a uid=XXX to the entry in /etc/fstab mount refuses to work. > > Any advice much appreciated. > >