Re: Accessing a NFS mounted directory as a user.

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

On (04/06/03 15:45), N. Pauli wrote:
> 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. 

Hi Nigel

You can achieve this using chmod (to change permissions) and chown (to
vary ownership - user, group etc.)

Try man chown and man chmod for more detail.  If you add your users to
the group that owns the files and give read and write permission to the
group.

HTH

Clive