I'm hoping someone can help me out with my mounting problem. On Machine A I have the following structure:

/dir

/dir/subdir1
/dir/subdir2
/dir/subdir3

Now /dir/subdir2 is really a mount:
/dev/hdb1 /dir/subdir2 ext3 auto,user,suid,async,dev,rw,exec 0 0

OK... so all is well when I'm on Machine A. Now I mount /dir as /mnt/machA on Machine B. Here's where I run into trouble. When looking at the mount on Machine B I'm able to see /mnt/machA/subdir1 & /mnt/machA/subdir3. However I can't see /mnt/machA/subdir2.

When I "ls -l" it shows me that /mnt/machA/subdir2 is owned by root:root (which is wrong) whereas all the other directories are listing the correct & expected user:group ownerships.

I hope this hasn't been too confusing of a message. Any help at all is greatly appreciated.

-theFoo

How are you mounting from Machine A to B? nfs?

Yes, nfs. Here's the fstab entry:
MachineA:/dir /macha/dir nfs auto,user,defaults 0 0

I would of thought you'd have to mount the subdir2 seprately. I'm no expert on nfs I'm affraid and I don't know if any other way is possible.

Hopefully a more experienced person will reply. Sorry.

The problem with mounting subdir2 separately is that it already exists with root:root ownerships, so I'd have to mount it elsewhere. Ideally I'll have an exact replica on multiple machines so that I never have to worry about which machine I'm on.

In theory I could mount each /subdir separately however the tree I presented in my initial post is greatly simplified. There are many more subdirectories. It's possible, just not elegant.

Thanks though. =)