How to Mount NFS Exports as User

I would suggest to start with the Appendix of the NFS on VNX manual – it contains some good information about the sometimes not so intuitive interaction of the different export options

From experience problems like yours are most likely caused by either different mapping/understanding of which UID you are actually using on the clients and what its mapped to

To troubleshoot that create a directory that has write or everyone, then just create a file/dir from the client and do an “ls –l” and see who the actual uid/gid owner are

Sometimes the cause is that the IP/name of the client is seen by the server as a different one than you think – i.e. hosts with multiple interfaces or name resolution

BTW – strictly speaking this isn’t a mounting problem – it looks like you are able to mount fine

Did you mean when running the mount itself as a non-root user you get permission denied ?

Hi Rainer,

When I ran the ls -l, I was able to see the directories as my username as the owner.  I think you are right in that the server is not seeing the username properly mapping to the UID.  Is there a way to check this?

Response to second post.  Yes, we can run it fine as root but can't mount or anything as non-root user.

Post output and info about your config?

How good is your Unix knowledge?

Well – all the Unix system I know restrict mount to the super user – nothing to do with the VNX