[LUNI] Mounting NFS drive as User

[Keith T. Garner]

On 11/20/07 7:02 PM, Michael Labowicz wrote:
> On Nov 19, 2007 1:33 PM, bil <bil at jeschke.homelinux.net> wrote:
>>  Have you tried doing a chmod on the directory before it is mounted?  I have
>> one of these units at home, and as root I made the mountpoint, then did
>> chmod a+rwx on so that after it was mounted users could access it.  I have
>> had no problems with NFS this way.
> 
> I tried chmodding the drive before mounting today, but still couldn't
> get it to work.  Once I mount the drive, the permissions on the drive
> revert to rwx for only the root and it's group:
> 
> drwxrwx--- 3 root

The permissions of the mount point don't matter.  Its the permissions of
what you're mounting (on the server) that matter.

Keith


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 Keith T. Garner                                        kgarner at kgarner.com
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