Re: NFS Problem

[Zhao You Bing <zhaoyb@cad.zju.edu.cn>]

Bart Lenoir wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running an NFS server on Red Hat.
> Connected to the Red Hat I have a Debian 
> which I want to use as an NFS client.
> Ping, Ftp, Telnet, ... all seems fine.
> Mount and Umount is working well, however
> I don't have access to the selected directory.
> "Permission denied". The only way I can have
> access to this directory is to set Red Hat 
> /etc/exports to (rw,sync,no_root_squash).
> Logging in as root on Debian I'm having access 
> but that is not what I want. Why do I get 
> Permission refused as regular user?
>
> On another Red Hat I do have access as regular user.
>
> rpcinfo -p on Debian
>
> # rpcinfo -p
>    program vers proto   port
>     100000    2   tcp    111  portmapper
>     100000    2   udp    111  portmapper
>     100024    1   udp    867  status
>     100024    1   tcp    870  status
>     391002    1   tcp  32768  sgi_fam
>     391002    2   tcp  32768  sgi_fam
>     100021    1   udp  32769  nlockmgr
>     100021    3   udp  32769  nlockmgr
>     100021    4   udp  32769  nlockmgr
>
> Thanks,
> Bart
I think nfs requires u have same user id on both the system if u want to 
have full rights (very dangerous I think)

so u need to change /etc/passwd to have same user id. Redhat starts user 
id from 500 while Debian starts from 1000, I did manually changed the 
user id to have nfs access.

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