I just stumbled on this one which has been a problem for people where I work for almost a year. Most people having this problem either converted to other Linux dists such as Suse or in a couple of cases even worse, back to Windows. People started to have two computers just to be able to work in Ubuntu and have one that worked with the NFS network. We looked everywhere in the network for the problem.
I think this is a Ubuntu problem using so many groups in its configuration and I think an effort to diagnoce the problem and to control it would be very useful and beneficial for Ubuntu. The problem is that the NIS groups are added to the list of local groups so there is no way to know in advance how many groups do we have. Instead the NFS client could try to figure out what groups are of interest for a particular RPC by examining the target directory/file ownership or it could retry with a new set of group ID:s until all have been tried. Today it seems that the group ID:s are sent sorted in ascending order and no warning are produced about the chopped of group ID:s. I think the NFS client handling could be improved. BR Joakim -- Permission denied when user belongs to group that owns group writable or setgid directories mounted via nfs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/110132 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
