
Most NFS servers will squash the root user to a low to no privilege UID/GID after the mount is successful. The only thing that will veto file/directory permissions is if the export was mounted 'read-only' Once mounted, file/directory permissions will take over. Anyone who can logon to the computer, and has sudo rights to mount, will be able to mount the export. NFS clients are granted mount privileges by hostnames, not users. For the sake of simplicity, we will assume we are using NFSv3. To help you understand your issue, there are a few things you need to know about the NFS protocol. I hope i managed to explain myself so that this is understandable?!Īnybody cares to help, in advance:Thank you!! I´m ripping out my hair on this thing. Tried looking into Directory Utlity, no luck, tried too see if there where any settings i´ve changed in NFS manager (I believe it was after this was installed everything got messed up.) but nothing i´ve tried resets this automagical logon to the mounted server share. Really have no idea what search phrase i should use to find this kind of issue. I searched a lot of hours trying to find someone with the same problem, but no luck. I even tried changing the user and groups on the share, but it just connects anyway, but only view. Where is this setting hidden in OSX? How can i get the option too choose user to logon the server with again? This works, but i cant choose user anymore?! And it seems to connect as whatever the server requires to view everything, but not add or delete files or folders. I tried to connect with the "command+K" option, entered the server adress and folder to mount. I tried lots of settings on the server side and started too get a little feel of how things where working, but somewhere along the line i must´ve added something to my OSX settings, because suddenly i couldn´t see the server anymore in finder.
I could at first see the server when i browsed the "Network" in finder, when i clicked on it i could choose who i would log on as (guest or registered user). Didn´t really understand this yet, it doesn´t seem to straight forward for the unexperienced. I tried creating some shares and users and groups to test out how the system reacted to the different setting to get to understand the nfs/unix user system. Also, everybody should see that the "share 2" exists, but not be able to connect to it to see files/folders inside. This should require log in by privileged user. I was trying to get the share working as follows:Įverybody should be able to connect and see/use files in "share 1", but not delete anything. If anybody have the patience to aid me a little that would be apreciated! I am NOT experienced in this and have tried searching for answers to this with no luck.