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Re: Can't write to an nfs export



On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 08:40:52AM -0500, Kent West wrote:

> Yet when I try to create a directory or copy a file, etc I get
> "Permission Denied" errors.

Are you trying to do this as root?  As a security measure, NFS defaults
to converting all accesses from root to accesses from the user nobody.
To enable access as root, add no_root_squash to the options in
/etc/exports.

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