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From: richard@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: pc-nfs group access permissions
Message-ID: <3031@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 21 Jan 89 11:29:00 GMT
Organization: University of Hawaii
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I'm trying to use unix group permissions to allow two PC users on
our network to share files (read and write).  According to the
pc-nfs manual a single group is supported.  Unfortunately, so far
my attempts to make it work have failed.

Both users belong to the same group according to the server's
/etc/passwd file and (redundantly) the /etc/group file.

I've noticed that there's a sample NETGROUP file in the pc-nfs
distribution but it doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere in
the manual.  And the sample doesn't make much sense to me.

When I run "net name" from either user it shows that they both
belong to the same group.  Yet I'm unable to create new files
in the others directory (with group read, write and execute
permissions on).

Has anyone been able to get this to work?

Thanks.

Richard Foulk		richard@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu