Hi! Try these optionsin file /etc/exports at server side: all_squash makes all user appear as nobody at server side. or map_static lets you define each uid pairs in server and client side. HTH -- arimo On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Janina Sajka wrote: > I'm trying to allow an ordinary user to nfs mount a remote directory. I > have no problem getting mount to work for this user, but there's a > problem afterwards. The user can't write into the NFS mounted directory > even though it's mounted rw. It seems that the problem may be that this > user has a different UID on each machine. > > If I add a uid=XXX to the entry in /etc/fstab mount refuses to work. > > Any advice much appreciated. > >