Hello everybody,
I have a solaris 8 box sharing via nfs 6 directories, and the clients are Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 8) with kernel 2.4.21-47, in these boxes i can mount the nfs share but when try to write to it, i got this:
#touch testing
touch: creating `testing': Permission denied (either with root or a normal user)
the configuration file in solaris 8 has multiple lines like this:

share -F nfs -o rw -d "description" /apps/dirname

in the linux box this is one line from fstab of how i am mounting the remote dir:
hostname:/remotedir /apps/localdir nfs rw,soft 0 0

what's wrong here? are there any known issues about nfs shares from solaris to linux?
Thanks

When you are root, this is the expected behavior. Otherwise, are the target permissions allowing you to create a file ?

thankyou, reading about nfs i found that, , so i tried with a normal user, but i qet the same result, the permisions of the shared directories are set in the defaults of 755, then i triend also 775, but the only way i get it to work correctly is setting the permisions to the shared directory on the nfs server to 777...., and i don´t want it to be that way.

The 755 permissions still forbid the user to create a file, unless he/she is the directory owner.

i will make more tests with the permissions this monday, but i still think that it is an issue mounting a solaris 8 nfs share in a linux redhat ES box..... i'll like to know what do you think about it.

I don't think so. From the clues you give there is nothing that looks unexpected to me.

so there is no other solution than setting the shared directory to 777 permission, on the server?? i have set it that way but i don't like it very much ....

See, when you do a NFS, the directory is owned by nfsnobody (NFS deamon) and hence 777 permission is needed since the remote server users are as good as other users in terms of permission.

If you dont want to have it like this way, then better use Samba for File sharing.

This has nothing to do with NFS, you have the same "limitation" while using a local directory.
You may want to try setting the permissions on the mounted directory to 4777 to reduce user rights on other people's files.
As the directory is to be shared, I'm missing what you don't like in setting the permissions to allow proper access.

for all your replies and advice,all of them clarify to me some wrong concepts i had about file and dir permissions with NFS.