the (rw/ro) of a mounted drive/dir is a function of how you defined your mountpoint on the nfs server. the rw/ro designates what a client can do with the share rw -read/write (able to read and write to the share from a client) ro -read only (read files only) hope this helps... -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Joy Methew Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 9:18 AM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: nfs hiii all.............. we share some directory from nfs...like /hello 172.24.0.0/255.255.0.0 by default option`s are applied. server ip 172.24.254.254 we mount from client side like :mount 172.24.254.254:/hello /mnt then we run "mount" on client side it`s show /hello directory in mounted on /mnt (rw,172.24.254.254) why it`s showing (rw) here server give permission only (ro) but it`s showing (rw)???? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list