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Aspirant

Sep 23, 2015

Solved

NFS mount libuuid user

Hi, i've had this issue a few times, on some machines and not others. After mounting one of my shares using "mount -t nfs" the mount location's permissions seem totally messed up. 0 drwxrw...

File Sharing

sg86
Feb 25, 2016
Something doesn't feel right. I used to be able to connect via NFS no problem at all, from multiple boxes including a linux sat box and android box.

I'm going to backup everything and factory reset, i fear its the only solution, and hopefully this fixes things.

BrianL2

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Sep 23, 2015

Hi sg86,

Kindly ensure that you have root and read-write access to the share. Check this link for steps on how to properly mount shares via NFS on Linux.

Hope this helps!

Kind regards,

BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team

sg86
Aspirant
Oct 09, 2015
Hi Brian,

I've always mounted as per the link you provided, getting it mounted it not the issue, the issue is with permissions and the folder being owned by libuuid user. Is this some conflict between the user id of the NAS unix user and the local unix user?

If i chown the whole folder and files things are ok, but this isn't ideal. When mounting an NFS who should own the files/folders ?
- StephenB
  Guru - Experienced User
  Oct 09, 2015
  Normally you match the UID and GID across your systems. At least the UID/GID of the owner of the share on the NAS.
  - sg86
    Aspirant
    Feb 25, 2016
    I never resolved this, just went to do something over NFS as its faster in my experience that SMB, and yet again i can't access the mounted directory...
    
    0 drwxr-x---+ 1 libuuid 98 80 Apr 3 2015 readynas
    
    This is really frustrating, i've tried all sorts of things with settings for NFS, file and network access yet can't get any differet response.
    
    You said UID must match, that is surely ludicrous? Also ubuntu here starts users at 1000 and readynas starts at 100, in fact my admin user has ID of 98.
    
    There is someone saying exactly the same thing here > https://community.netgear.com/t5/Using-your-ReadyNAS/Can-t-Use-NFS-to-Access-Home-Shares/td-p/955500