On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 04:56 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > My daughter loaded a bunch of vacation pictures [du -h shows 5.7G} on to > my Linux nfs server from her Mac portable via our wireless LAN last night. > > I can see that the files are there but I can't view them directly, in > fact I can only list directories part way through the tree and they are > long directory names! > > However although I can't view them as root either I can copy the files > to this computer and view the images with gthumb. The owner changes in > the copying process which appears to be what makes them accessible to me. > > I don't quite understand how this all works, I've messed with owners and > groups before when I observed this problem without success. I certainly > don't want to copy all those files to this computer just to look at a > few pix. It seems the user mapping failed and thus the default guest user 'nfsnobody' was used to access the server. (r/w as guest is a possible security issue.) If you can't list the directories all the way down, the permissions aren't correct. You can run # chmod o=rX -R /path/to/photos to give users not in the nfsnobody group read access to the photos (and the necessary execute permissions to the directories). To change the ownership run # chown someuser: -R /path/to/photos -- Jussi Lehtola Fedora Project Contributor jussilehtola@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
