one of 3 nfs shares denies access to folder

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I have a small office network, all boxes run open suse 12.1- 12.3
from the box that is the NFS server I share 3 different folders

on the server

$# cat /etc/exports
     /home/office/FTPshared/copierscans    *(rw,no_all_squash,no_subtree_check,async)
    /home/office/FTP-shared/cadscans       *(rw,no_all_squash,no_subtree_check,async)
    /home/office/docs                                *(rw,no_all_squash,no_subtree_check,async)

on the remote box 1 where the trouble is

linux-023o:/ # cat /etc/fstab

192.168.0.22:/home/office/FTP-shared/copierscans        /home/user/copierscans        nfs     defaults 0 0 
192.168.0.22:/home/office/FTP-shared/cadscans      /home/user/cadscans   nfs     defaults 0 0 
192.168.0.22:/home/office/docs        /home/user/docs  nfs  defaults 0 0
]

on box 1


drwxrwxr-x  2 nobody mygroup   4096 Feb 28 16:19 cadscans/
drwxrwxr-x  3 nobody mygroup  16384 Mar 23 14:57 copierscans/
drwxrwxrw- 25 nobody mygroup   4096 Feb 22 10:57 docs/

THE Problem:
I can access the cadscans and the copier scans just fine from box 1 and from other remotes in my office
I can access docs from other remote machines but get denied access to the docs folder on box 1.

when trying to enter the docs folder with krusader or dolphin I get the following

[CODE" Could not enter folder /home/user/docs."]



I tried creating another folder called "documents"  then mounting the share in it but I get the same error

this setup has worked for several years  and just recently the error occured after I upgraded the server  from mandriva to opensuse 12.1

can someone help shed some light on why this would happen?  It looks like a permission problem, but I am at a loss to find the solution

thank you for your help

wsams
2

The one thing different for docs is the permissions for “others”. They have write permissions but not execute. You need x to enter the folder.
Are you sure you’re a member of mygroup?

3

Thank you for your response

I moved all files out of /docs and deleted the folder. I then recreated the folder /docs and set the permissions to rwxrwxr-x, and set the flag to move the permissions recursively. I moved all files back into the new folder , rebooted the server and the troublesome client and now the shares are accessible from all clients.

thank you again :slight_smile:

wsams

4

I did not know you needed 777 to use nfs. I have been struggling with this same thing for a couple of days now and this fixed the problem. Thank you.
I was under the impression we only needed rw or could use groups, acl etc… but I have just started down this road with a Linux nfs server from SUSE studio. Anyway, I am still a newbie to this whole server/NAS thing I am trying to get done.

The other two servers I have tried “just worked” but I guess they were pre-configured with the proper permissions.