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  From: David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>
  To  : Richard Russell <richardrussell@internode.on.net>
  Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 10:29:45 +0930

Re: Basic NFS Question

Richard!

> surely trying this would be trivial, David... (unless you have no NFS
> mounted directories)...

Yes, I now realise what was actually wrong. I have a BSD box which I run
as my X Server. I decided that it would be "funky" although "pointless"
to use its Netscape instead of my main machines (1). I had made a
symlink to /mnt/home/lloy0076/.netscape and couldn't cd into it or
anything.

It turns out that after reading the man pages multiple times that I have
to either have the same *ID's as the main machine or somehow squash my
effective *ID to my main machines. FreeBSD has lloy0076 as UID 1000
whilst Linux starts at 500; hence I was being mapped as the nobody user
who, for reasons obvious, couldn't cd into mnt/home/lloy0076.

However, I could symlink to the directory (crazy; I can create symlinks
that I clearly was not permitted to use).

Hence, a reconfiguration of my NFS server to squash the anonymous user
to lloy0076, UID 500 fixed my apparent problem.

> ABAS (a bit about symlinks): they are just textual references to other files
> on the filesystem. Hard links are not, hence you couldn't do that with
> hardlinks.

Thanks!

(1)
I'm just a beginner with this NFS thing, and all I have is a set of man
pages which I can understand and I'm getting there...

-- 
"And the winner is
   InUnifiedCanadianAboriginalSyllabics"
- Larry Wall et al in Programming Perl

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