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Re: [TCLUG:3775] odd error mesg



On 28 Jan, Steve Siegfried wrote:
> 
> 
> Check that your uid and gid match on both machines.  Certain vendor
> versions of NFS validate file access permissions based on uid and gid
> (the numbers), not on owner-name and group-name.  Don't know the
> heritage of NFS on Linux, but this "feature" may have been duplicated.
> 
Yes this is duplicated.  I'm pretty sure it's part of the NFS spec.


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