Hidong Kim wrote:
>
> Sylvain GIL wrote:
> >
> > Sorry, my reply was in french, i must be tired :) Here is the
> > translation :
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Default configuration of nfs server is to do "root squashing". It means
> > that the uid of root is squashed to nobody when root try to acces to a
> > nfs volume. If "nobody" is not allowed to access the volume, the server
> > will reply "permission is denied". You can disable this security by
> > adding the no_root_squash parameter.
> >
> > For more information, see man exports
> >
> > Sorry again for my poor english.
> > --
> > Sylvain GIL - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hi, Sylvain,
>
> Thanks for the tip. The computer on which the tape drive is installed
> is called ripley. I edited ripley's /etc/exports to include the line:
>
> /dev/st0 weaver(rw,root_no_squash)
>
> so that weaver's root could access ripley's tape drive. I'm still
> getting the permission denied error. Is this the right syntax for
> root_no_squash? Thanks,
>
> Hidong
Have you sent nfsd and mountd the SIGHUP signal to reread the exports
file?
see:
man mountd
man nfsd
man kill
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