On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 11:58 +0200, Christoph Bartoschek wrote: > Hi, > > we still have the problem that some users get permission denied for > directories they normally can access. The problem only affects a single user > at a time and automatically goes away after about 30 minutes. > > It seems to be a server problem because this happens on all client machines > at the same time. > > Here is how it looks like: > > [bartosch@r1106i12 ~]$ ls /afs/eda/prod > ls: cannot open directory /afs/eda/prod: Permission denied > [bartosch@r1106i12 ~]$ id > uid=348(bartosch) gid=200(vls) > groups=200(vlsi),100(users),201(zab),900(ibm),901(iba),902(ama),1001(eda),2030(asi),2057(ecl),41999(tra) > [bartosch@r1106i12 ~]$ > > I have attached the network traffic that was exchanged between the NFS > server and the client for the ls command captured by wireshark. > > Accessing the directory /afs/eda works as expected. > > Has anyone an idea what could be wrong? NFSv3 doesn't use the mode bits to determine access rights, so looking at a GETATTR call isn't really that helpful. You need to catch the original ACCESS call and reply in order to figure out what caused the permission denied issue. -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer NetApp Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx www.netapp.com ��.n��������+%������w��{.n�����{��w���jg��������ݢj����G�������j:+v���w�m������w�������h�����٥