If you don’t care about security and prefer to use only root account across all your machines, including on NFS shared file system, here is how you allow NFS clients root access on a NFS shared file system:
share -F nfs -o rw,root=host1:host2:host3 /nfs_share_dir
Note the root=access_list option defines which host has root access to this specific NFS share.
Source: share_nfs
Special thanks to Greg N. for pointed out share_nfs man page.
Yeah this works on Solaris 10 but it doesn’t work using Solaris 9, do you know how to do it on Solaris 9?
thanks!
Hi Mr. Lee, Although I don’t have a Solaris 9 box to verify if root access list works the same way or not, the share_nfs link that I provided in the blog post actually is on Solaris 9. So, I would expect the technique should work for Solaris 9.
For some reasons unkown to me the method above doesn’t work with Solaris 9. I tried it on several of our boxes.
Know I’m using root=,anon=0. But I’m not sure if this is a good idea. But this is just a temporary share anyway.
You should use root=host1:host2:host3 syntax. I have not tried to use other ways to enable root access. If you find a better way, let me know.
It worked fine for me on Solaris 8 Server.
Hi AIX,
Good to know this trick also works for Solaris 8.
THe problem with that is though that now any one on the net work can mount that share and the acess list seems to be ignored:
182:scalpel:/# share -F nfs -o root=host1 /tmp
183:scalpel:/# showmount -e scalpel
export list for scalpel:
/jump (everyone)
/tmp (everyone)
Why is the access list ignored?
Hi Orf,
According to this page “root=list Allows root access to root user on clients specified by list.” I would read it as not excluding other users from mount the share resource. They just can’t mount as root from hosts that isn’t specified by this root= option. You might want to add rw=list option to further restrict access. Let me know how this work for you. Thanks.
hi
we have solaris server, we makes group and user herichey
now i want to access my solaris server from any window based host.so that i take bakup of main folder which is used by these group.can you help me
Hi Avdhesh,
I am sure there are other fancier ways to do what you want. Here are a few simple ideas:
install Samba if you want. If you want to preserve the file structure and permission configuration on the files, you might want to run a cron job to tar up the directory and compressed it so you can just copy the back-up file using Samba/scp/ftp/nfs.
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Hi Dave
A directory owned by an application user “websph” in NFS server to be shared to a NFS client having same user/group, to be able to write to the NFS filesystem without change in ownership at the client.
Yeah this works on Solaris 10 but it doesn’t work using Solaris 9, do you know how to do it on Solaris 9?