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Date: | Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:49:19 +0100 |
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Mark Van Crombrugge wrote:
> Dear all,
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> I am using Scientific Linux 3.4 and activated an NFS link between two
> servers, making available diskspace from bigserver2 to smallserver1.
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> One userID is used for uploading datafiles to smallserver1 and another is
> used for creating/editing webpages on that server.
> Because this created access problems I created a group 'webdevelop' on
> smallserver1 to contain these 2 users so they can access eachothers files.
> After doing this, I discovered that executing the chgrp and chown command on
> the files/directories on smallserver1 returns error message "Operation not
> permitted".
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> On smallserver1 I use the mount command:
> bigserver2:/var/wwww/html/website on /var/www/html/website type nfs (rw,
> addr=ipaddress-of-bigserver2)
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> I'm realy stuck and have spent about a day trying to solve/understand this
> so any help is very welcome!
The chgrp and chown commands require root permission.
Add "no_root_squash" to /etc/exports on bigserver2.
See 'man 5 exports" for more details.
Or run chgrp and chown on bigserver2, not on smallserver1.
Manfred Alef
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