[wplug] Writing to a NFS mount

[Vanco, Donald]

Gentgeen wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 23:20:16 -0400
> Gentgeen <gentgeen at linuxmail.org> wrote:
> 
> Well, I fixed the problem myself.  Thought I'd repost for
> posterity reasons.  After mounting the NFS share, I did a ls
> -l on my /mnt/ directory.  Seems the share was being mounted
> as UID 1000.  For Debian (the NFS server), the UID of users
> start at 1000 and go up.  On my Redhat Desktop (the NFS
> client), I am UID 501, since RH starts users at 500.  (NOTE:
> My username was the same for both) So I just changed the UID and GID
>        for my RH box: groupmod -g 1000 kevin
>        usermod -g 1000 -u 1000 kevin
> 
> Now no problems.  I know there is probably a better (read
> more correct) way to do this, but is works for my little home system.
	
	I think that you can export a share with a fixed UID/GID, not sure
if you can also do that with the mount command itself.  It's not reasonable
in a true multi-user environment to expect clients to mangle their Ids in
this manner....  I'd say take a look at man for mount and exports.

Don