Permission problem with NFSv4 mount

[Mike Brodbelt]

Tom Haynes wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 06:03:21PM +0000, Mike Brodbelt wrote:
>> I have a problem with permissions on an NFSv4 export.
>>
>> Server is Solaris (Sun 7410 storage appliance), client is Linux (Debian
>> Lenny, kernel 2.6.26-1-amd64).
>>
>> On the Linux side, mount entry is as follows:-
>>
>> 10.0.0.43:/export/filesys /db/data        nfs4    noatime,sec=sys 00
>>
>> I have configured the idmap domain on the storage appliance, and in
>> /etc/idmapd.conf on the client, and have started the idmapd service on
>> the storage appliance, and on the Linux client.
>>
>> The export mounts fine on the client, however I cannot write to it as a
>> non root user. As root, writes work fine (root squash on the server has
>> been disabled for this export). So:-
> 
> What is the export?

I'm not sure what you mean... It's exported r/w, with anon users mapped
to nobody, and root access explicitly allowed from the client in question.

> Does this work for NFSv3?

Yes, with NFSv3 it works as expected, but the performance isn't good
enough for our app with NFSv3.

Mike