From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 25 18:59:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sabre.dhs.org (rocky.ee.cua.edu [136.242.140.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C28CC14D55 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 18:59:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sabre@sabre.dhs.org) Received: from localhost (sabre@localhost) by sabre.dhs.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA05493; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 20:15:22 GMT (envelope-from sabre@sabre.dhs.org) Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 20:15:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Sabre To: cjclark@home.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Easy NFS problem :/ In-Reply-To: <199909252202.SAA47075@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ok, I took out the rw (Which I thought meant Read-Write ;) Now on to the UID's :) I thought that when I put the clients IP in, that the server would give full permissions to who ever tried to access it from the client. How do I tell it which uid's to allow when they have seperate passwd files (I was going to set this up using NIS, so should I have done that first?) Sabre > First, your exports file is telling the server to export those file > systems to the host 123.123.123.123 and a host named "rw", which I > doubt is your intention. NFS mounts are read-write by default; no need > to try to include that in /etc/exports. > > Second, do you actually have permission to write wherever you are > trying to? Read-write permissions on NFS are done by uid. Does your > uid have permission to write wherever you are trying? And note that > root will be mapped to nobody in your setup. > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message