Re: a quick NFS question

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam trinity edu>]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 05:37:06PM -0500, Justin wrote:
> 
> 	I have been using NFS shares to store my mp3's on so all of my machines can 
> read them, I switched from suse to redhat and now my nfs shares mount read 
> only. my exports file on the server looks like this:
> 
> /home/music		tux(rw)
> 		
> it was my understanding that is all there is too it? In my fstab on the 
> client machine It mounts with the rw option. I assume i am missing something 
> obvious here?
> 
Well now that we have the mystery of the tux explained. Here are three
comments:
1. I assume you rebooted the machine that is exporting or ran exportfs -a  
Does running exportfs (without arguments) confirm that the exporting
went correctly.

2. It would be interesting to see your fstab line mounting this
directory.

3. Now this is subtle and can be missed. What are the permissions on
the directory on the client machine where /home/music is mounted. If
that directory does not allow writing or if the person accessing the
files in that directory do not have user permissions to write into the
directory on the server you can't write. Or maybe more directly
/home/music on the server as well as the directory on which it is
mounted must both allow writing by that user for the rw access to work.
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