Hello everyone,

I have read the tutorial in the tutorial section on how to set up two Linux computers using NFS. So I tried.

I run NFS server on my desktop share this folder /home/my user/Shared
to * host and with option: rw, root_squash, sync.

I want to have 'rw' because I want to make this folder like a place where I can put my stuff and share with my laptop when I want.

Then, I go to my laptop, use Yast2 and run NFS client.
I connect to the NFS server of my desktop (192.168.2.2) and
choose /home/my user/Shared
mount point: /mnt/SeraphSword
option: default (since I don't know any other option)

After that, right click on the desktop choose new->device->nfs. I choose it to point to the mount point 192.168.2.2:/home/my user/Shared(mount to mnt/SeraphSword)

Everything seems to be correct for me. Then, when I try to copy something on my laptop to this NFS folder, it DOES not work. It says I have permission problem. I don't know what's wrong since I have specified 'rw' in my NFS Server settings, things should not be a trouble.

What can I do? TIA

when you're on your laptop, what's the result of the following command in a terminal:

ls -l /mnt/SeraphSword

Chances are you have a username permission issue.

Here it goes:

>ls -l /mnt/SeraphSword
total 0
>

In fact, there is no file in it yet since I found no way to put a file into even when I am on root @ my desktop. I am confused now. How can I put files into it anyway?

how do you put things in it? you navigate that directory however you prefer and save a file...

post the output of ls -l /mnt then. It'll tell us what the permissions are on the directory SeraphSword.

Also, what's the permissions set to on the "server" side? What user are you logged in as and trying to write files? It's just an early guess, but you might need to set the NFS opitions on the share to no_root_squash instead of root_squash.

alrighty, that folder is owned by root.root
and the permission is drwxr-xr-x

tried ls -l /mnt/ and got the same thing
drwxr-xr-x root.root SeraphWings

How come, I specified 'rw' as the option for my NFS server anyway.

the rw just means that you COULD read/write through the NFS mount IF you have permissions. It's an added level of security. I'll bet if you tried to right to the share as root on the local computer, you'd have no problems.

Otherwise, you have to change the ownership to the regular user account you are logged in as. This is also done as root.