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- From: duffiem@wl.com (Mark Duffield)
- Subject: Re: NFS Problem
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.032614.7932@wl.com>
- Organization: Warner Lambert / Parke-Davis
- References: <31488@adm.brl.mil>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 03:26:14 GMT
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- In article <31488@adm.brl.mil> fred@poly2.nist.gov (Frederick R. Phelan Jr.) writes:
- >
- >We have a strange problem. We have a user (I'll call
- >USER1) who has a file system mounted from a PI to a 4D80.
- >The fstab entry on the 4D80 is:
- >
- >poly2:/usr/people/USER1 /usr/people/USER1 nfs rw,bg 0 0
- >
- >She complained to me that when working on the 4D80, she
- >could not write any files. On checking things out I found
- >that the system says that the owner of /usr/people/USER1
- >on the 4D80 is another user (I'll call USER2). However,
- >If I do a umount -a and look, it goes back to saying
- >/usr/people/USER1 is owned by USER1. Thus, the NFS mount
- >is making the system think that ownership is changing.
- >
- Sounds like USER1 has a different uid on the systems. Check to see
- whether USER1s uid on the PI is the same as the uid of USER2 on the 4D80. If
- they are the same, you will have to change one of them so that USER1 can
- have the same uid on both systems.
-
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