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dninja

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From: Sheffield, UK

Registered: 2006-04-29

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NFS sharing with different permissions

I'm trying to share a directory over NFS giving read access to most of the network but read/write access to one machine. I tried this in the exports file

/var/media     192.168.0.0/24(ro,sync,no_subtree_check) 192.168.0.2(rw,sync,no_subtree_check)

but the .2 machine is only given read access. I've tried swapping the order and splitting over two lines but I can't get it to work.

192.168.0.2 # showmount  -e server
Export list for server:
/var/media 192.168.0.0/24

Is this possible?

falconindy

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From: New York, USA

Registered: 2009-10-22

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Re: NFS sharing with different permissions

What are the permissions/owner of /var/media on the server? You may need to add 'no_root_squash' to the second machine's export.

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dninja

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From: Sheffield, UK

Registered: 2006-04-29

Posts: 374

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Re: NFS sharing with different permissions

If I just have the one line specific for the .2 machine the share works fine in rw mode. I think that it takes the most general clause and applies that. I've kind of proved that to myself by adding a rule for 192.168.0.0/16 in rw mode which beats the other two rules as it is more general.