onwership change

sherimm · 12-16-2008, 11:50 PM

Hi

When i am trying to change the onwership of a nfs mount it is giving invalid group error

[root@ghxpapp ~]# mount -t nfs ghxpdb.ghx.com:/u01/app/oraghxfinp/product/9.2.0/admin/GHXFINP_ghxfinpdb/ptmp /u01/app/oraghxfinp/product/9.2.0/admin/GHXFINP_ghxfinpdb/ptmp

[root@ghxpapp ~]# chown appghxfinp

raghxfinp /u01/app/oraghxfinp/product/9.2.0/admin/GHXFINP_ghxfinpdb/ptmp/
chown: `appghxfinp

raghxfinp': invalid group
[root@ghxpapp ~]#

Could you please help me in this

thanks
Murali

eco · 12-17-2008, 04:29 AM

hi sherimm,

It's been a while but I don't think you can change permissions on a mounted NFS partition.

Permissions are granted from the NFS server, the client is or is not granted access. No client, not even under root, can change the file permissions. This is, I believe, for security reasons.

Hope this helps.
-eco

kenneho · 12-17-2008, 05:21 AM

I agree with eco, although it is possible that both of us are wrong.

Why do you wish to change ownership in the first place?

Hern_28 · 12-17-2008, 05:33 AM

Are you trying to allow regular users work with the drive. If so might set 'user' in fstab.