NFS mount permissions when user ids don't match

[Bill Moseley]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 09:17:23PM -0500, Brian Fahrlander wrote:
> Bill Moseley wrote:
> > I have a machine that exports a user's directory.  The user
> > is id=1000 on that machine.
> > 
> > I want to allow any users on the client machine to mount the
> > directory.
> > 
> > The problem, I think, is that uid 1000 on the client (ubuntu) machine
> > is user admin, so a user can run mount /mnt/photos but then it gets
> > mounted as:
> > 
> >     drwx------ 6 admin users 4096 1969-12-31 16:00 photos
> > 
> > Is there a way to mount this so a normal user can have access?
> 
>     Make all the users who'll use that file, in the same group, and make 
> sure the group access is +rw.

when that directory is mounted the directory is set to those
permissions.  When it's not mounted it looks like:

    drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-10-23 16:00 photos

>     But the idea of NFS mounting a removable drive is the actual issue, 
> here; if you're going to export something, you want to export something 
> there's no chance someone's working on; I'd suggest copying over the 
> files to a bit of drive space that's always there.

The mount is on a server on the LAN, it's not a removable drive.

Thanks,

-- 
Bill Moseley
moseley at hank.org