Re: nfs and shifting permissions

[Thomas O'Dowd <tom@example.com>]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 07:28:51PM +0900, Tony Laszlo wrote:
> Today's strangeness.
> 
> After ssh'ing into net.issho.org and becoming root,
> I do this:
> 
> chown -R user.user /mnt/directory/otherdirectory/
> 
> As a result, all the files in the directory
> become user.user.
> 
> _BUT_ when I ls -l /mnt/directory/
> from asong2.issho.org, a machine
> that has been capable of copying
> to and from /mnt/directory/ because
> it is connected via nfs, it shows
> the files as 500.500 (!).
> 
> (the following
> is from asong2's /etc/fstab)
> 
> net:/mnt/store          /mnt/nfs                nfs
> rsize=8192,wsize=8192,hard,intr  0  0
> 
> Then, when I chown laszlo.laszlo these
> files from asong2.issho.net , they
> look alright from asong2 but become
> 505.505 as far as net.issho.org is
> concerned (!!).
> 
> What is going on?!

Check passwd/group files/nis on both machines and see that they're 
doing the right thing.

Tom.
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