Accessing a NFS mounted directory as a user.

[N.Pauli <npauli@st-johns.org.uk>]

Dear All, 
 
I have got NFS up and running on my 3 machine network in which beech [10.0.0.5]
is the server and mesh [10.0.0.6] and tecra [10.0.0.7] are clients. From beech
I have exported /tmp and /var/www and mounted them on the two clients as
/mnt/beechtmp and /mnt/beechweb respectively. I can read and write to
/mnt/beechtmp (I guess because it is setup as world rwx) but would like to be
able to write to /mnt/beechweb - at the moment I cannot. 
 
/mnt/beechweb and all its files and sub-directories are user:group www-data 
www-data. At the moment users can read from /mnt/beechweb but how can I give a 
user on mesh or tecra the right to write? Do I need to do this through NIS or
is this overkill? 
 
Any help or pointers would be appreciated. 
 
Thanks, 
Nigel 
 
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Nigel Pauli 
Network Manager 
St. John's School, Northwood