Added -root=hostA to /etc/exports on host B and everything worked fine.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Allen Belk <allen.belk_at_usm.edu>
To: alpha-osf-managers_at_ornl.gov <alpha-osf-managers_at_ornl.gov>
Date: Thursday, December 10, 1998 7:46 AM
Subject: root access denied to NFS mount
>Host A is mounting a read-only NFS mount from host B. When logged in as
>root on host A, permission is denied when I attempt to access the mount
>point. Regular users have proper access. I have an almost identical setup
>that goes in the other direction (host B is mounting a read-only NFS mount
>from host A) that works without any problems. I read something about the
>no_root_squash option for linux based NFS but I can't find any reference to
>this in any DEC UNIX documentation. Any ideas?
Received on Thu Dec 10 1998 - 14:41:13 NZDT