Re: Strange NFS behaviour

["s. keeling" <keeling@nucleus.com>]

Alex Samad <alex@samad.com.au>:
> 
>  On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:16:34AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 08:13:09AM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> > > Does your /etc/exports file on the server say the client can write?
> > > eg. /home/daniel 192.168.1.14(rw)
> > 
> > /exports/video
> > 192.168.8.0/22(no_root_squash,secure,sync,rw,subtree_check,mp=/exports/
> > video,crossmnt)
> 
>  found the problem, to many groups and a limit in the nfs protocol to 16
>  groups. There is a work around
>  RPCMOUNTDOPTS="--manage-gids"
> 
>  in nfs-kernel-server

I've had no luck finding information on this.  manpages & google
groups haven't helped much (so far).

How portable is this?  Is this a Linux/FLOSS-ism, or is that in the
NFS standard?  Googling some more ...  :-(

   http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1094.html

Any second, it'll come to me.


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