[geeks] Solaris 10 puzzle

[Phil Stracchino]

On 12/01/10 13:51, Sandwich Maker wrote:
> " From: Phil Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net>
> " Right, but if it's not going through the NFS mechanism *at all* as in a
> " loopback mount, then why is it getting squashed to nobody...?
> 
> yeah, that makes no sense.
> 
> on a whim, just checked my system, s8:
> /export/home, root/sys, 755;
> /home root/root, 555.
> so it doesn't look like an owner or perm clash...
> 
> this is automounted.  i've forgotten - are you also automounting, or
> direct fstab nfs-mounting?  what if you manually force an nfs mount?

This is being mounted from fstab, manually so far since the machines are
in production and cannot be casually rebooted.  Everything looks normal,
the share just ...  mounts with the wrong ownership on that one zone.
It's bizarre.  I think it must have something to do with the host and
client being on the same physical machine, but I'm damned if I can
figure out what.


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