[ILUG] NFS help, please - exporting and mounting /home

[Cormac McClean]

"Burke, Gary : GIG IS&T" wrote:
> 
> ]I can also see the contents of the lost+found
> ]directory.
> ]
> ]However, when I look at /home/cormac, it reports
> ]that the directory is empty:
> ]       ls -l /nfs_test/cormac (i.e. /home/cormac)
> ]       total 0
> 
> I would assume that this is a rights thing.  Create a user called cormac on
> the local machine with the same UID and GID as on the remote machine, and
> log in as that user and see if you can access the directory then.  Or
> indeed, log in as root and try it.  If the drive is NFSmounted, then you
> should be able to see everything.
> 
> Gary

I know what you mean and I thought likewise, but I have been mounting 
and browsing as root on the client and still cannot see the contents of
/home/cormac.

I also tried this:
Created testuser with uid=300, gid=100 on both machines
exported /home in /etc/exports on server (also tried exporting
/home/testuser)

	$mount 193.1.31.83:/home /nfs_test
	$cd /nfs_test
	$ls -l
	cormac
	lost+found
	testuser
	$ls -l lost+found
	testfile
	$ls -l testuser
	total 0
	$ su testuser
	$ls -l 
	cormac
	lost+found
	testuser
	$ls -l testuser
	total 0

whereas on the server:
	$pwd
	/home/testuser
	$ls -R
	testing:
	. .. testfile


Hmm.... (scratching head).

Thanks for the suggestion, though.	
	
Regards,
Cormac.