Dear all, this is my very first mail to a mailing list, so please bear with me. I have a setup of an NFSv4 server, together with OpenLDAP and MIT Kerberos based on XEN virtualised Debian Lenny dom installations, currently running with kernel "2.6.26-2-xen-amd64". All is running smoothly and I am successfully using NFS to export the users home folders, accessing it from several Linux distributions. However, when I am exporting folders for groups the newly created object (file or folder) inherits the group-id from the parent object. Never the less it does not inherit the permission level (read, write, execute). To my knowledge there are two possible solutions. The first one would be to set the umask on each client machine in the "/etc/profile" file or in a file within the users homefolder. The other one would be to use posix ACLs and this is the preferred solution to me. I am able to set the desired ACLs on the server with the "setfacl" command, but I can't see them from the client side. My question is what is necessary to achive a successful permission handling. I am correct with my wish to use ACLs or are there other recommendations? Should I use the umask setting on the client side instead? There must be other organizations facing this very same issue and I am certain that there is an easy solution to this, but I just can't seem to find it. Any help or hint is welcome. Thanks Sascha -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
