[ale] Question on nfs

[Ted W]

On Jun 24, 2012, at 9:13 PM, Andrew Wade wrote:
> What useraccount are you using to change the permissions with on the client server (the one mounting the nfs share)?
> 
> Perhaps that user/group id does not have the permissions in the first place to chmod files that were not theirs/their groups.
> 
> 
> Andrew Wade
> 
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com> wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> I have a question. I got nfs set on a server, that I am export with
> the following line
> 
> /magihome          192.168.25.0/24(rw,sync,no_subtree_check)
> 
> But when I try to change permission I am getting the following error...
> 
> Operatin not permitted.
> 
> Any help?



It might be worth adding "-o uid=your_uid#" to the mount line if you've not tried that already. I've had to do this when mounting cifs shares at the office . Without it, only root had full access to the files on the share.
-- 
Ted W. < Ted at Techmachine.net >
Registered GNU/Linux user #413569




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