[ale] NFS question

[cdcoleman@bellsouth.net]

> 
> From: "Marvin,  International Martian of Mystery" <marvin.higginbottom at gmail.com>
> Date: 2007/08/09 Thu PM 09:24:05 EDT
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> Subject: [ale] NFS question
> 
> 
> 
> I have a slackware host with a 300 gig drive mounted under /home/export
> which I am sharing with an Ubuntu box running Zoneminder surveillance
> system, where it is mounted under the /var/www/zm/events directory.  
> 
> On the slackware box, the exports line looks like this:
> 
> /home/export   192.168.0.2/255.255.255.0(rw)
> 
> (I've also added the "nohide" and "no_auth_nlm" at various times to the
> export line, with no change in the behavior of the mount)
> 
> and the line in the Ubuntu box's fstab which mounts the share at boot
> time looks like this:
> 
> 192.168.0.3:/home/export   /var/www/zm/events nfs rw   0   0
> 
> and mount reports:
> 
> 192.168.0.3:/home/export on /var/www/zm/events type nfs
> (rw,addr=192.168.0.3)
> 
> By all indications, I should be able to write to this remote mount, but
> when I try to copy any file to that directory, I get this:
> 
> dabaron at video:~$ cp /tmp/zmdc.log /var/www/zm/events
> cp: cannot stat `/var/www/zm/events/zmdc.log': Permission denied
> 
> 
> What am I doing wrong?  When I've exported disks between slackware
> hosts, the exports line only needed the (rw) option enabled for the
> remote host to be able to mount and access the filesystem with no
> problems- am I missing something under Ubuntu?  I've noticed that the
> behavior of "sudo su" is different, among other things, on Ubuntu, is it
> something different with mounting a nfs volume, too?
> 
> Thanx in advance folks.  
> 
> 
> 
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Make sure the owner exists on both boxes and with the same user ID. If the directory is owned by root or root need access to the directory then make sure the no_root_squash (check man docs for the correct option) is used so root can write to the directory from over the net.

Chris Coleman