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Hi all. I have this peculiar problem in one of our Linux labs. We have a
Pentium box which contains all the home accounts, and these accounts get
nfs mounted to all the other linux clients. Now the problem occurs when
I'm on one of the client boxes, and I want to access the files in my
personal account on the Pentium box. For example, my personal account on
the Pentium is where I keep a lot of files I use for work on the lab.
Now most of the time I need to be root to do anything, and so I 'cd'
into my personal account, (from one of the client machines), but when I
type 'ls' in whatever directory inside my account, I get nothing
returned. It's as if the entire account is empty - which I know for a
fact is not the case. Now this is quite annoying, because I have to ftp
the files from my personal account to say /tmp, become root and then
work on the file(s). I'm not sure if this is something specific to the
setup in the lab, or a bug with the automount daemon, so that's why I'm
posting this here. The machines all run RedHat 4.1 with most of the
patches for that version applied. The client boxes are 486's with 16MB
RAM. They're all connected to a Sun IPX machine. Any help with this will
be appreciated.

Thanks

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Greg Roberts

Computer Systems Officer
Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering,
The University of Western Australia,
NEDLANDS WA 6907 Australia

Ph    : +61-8-9380-7366
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Email : gregr@ee.uwa.edu.au