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Date:      Fri, 2 Feb 2007 10:50:08 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Jay Chandler <chandler.lists@chapman.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: File won't move
Message-ID:  <20070202165008.GD44511@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <45C36A83.3010801@chapman.edu>
References:  <45C36A83.3010801@chapman.edu>

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In the last episode (Feb 02), Jay Chandler said:
> Have a file mounted on an NFS share.
> 
> I attempt to move it, rename it, copy it, or just about ANYTHING to
> it as root, and get a Permission Denied error.
> 
> How can I figure out what's going on?

Root usually has no permissions over NFS (it gets mapped to the user
"nobody").  Try manipulating the file directly on the NFS server.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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