Hi Krsnendu, I believe the line: /home <a href="http://192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw,root_squash,sync)">192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw,root_squash,sync)</a> Tells the machine with the exported share to NOT allow root users on other machines to have rootly powers on the share. Otherwise anyone who has root on their own machine can mount any nfs share and automagically have root on it as well. You'll probably need to export this directory with the no_root_squash option. Here's a little blurb on NFS that might help. John <div>On 1/14/07, Krsnendu dasa <<a href="mailto:krsnendu108@gmail.com"> krsnendu108@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I have installed K12LTSP6 and setup authentication from smbldap on the previous K12LTSP5 server. I have nfs exported /home from K12LTSP5 and mounted it. When I go to /home as root in nautilus it says I do not have access to some of the directories. Shouldn't root be able to access any file or directory? It seems to recognize the name root, but as an ordinary user not the superuser. I check in visudo and root is set up as superuser. How can I fix this? [root@k12ltsp1 ~]# ls -al /home total 76 drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Jan 9 14:57 . drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096 Jan 14 15:34 .. drwx------ 43 aruni staff 4096 Nov 9 12:38 aruni drwxrwxr-x 4 BackupPC BackupPC 4096 Dec 19 06:25 BackupPC drwxr-xr-- 84 krsnendu admin 12288 Jan 9 22:04 krsnendu drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 4096 Jan 9 15:50 multimedia drwx------ 31 nikunja staff 4096 Jan 13 23:19 nikunja drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jan 9 14:57 old drwxrwxrwx 10 root root 4096 Jan 9 15:07 oldwindows drwx------ 23 prana staff 4096 Oct 4 19:25 prana lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Aug 5 18:06 root -> /root drwxrwx--- 10 krsnendu staff 4096 Jan 9 15:24 School Intranet drwxrwxrwx 12 krsnendu students 4096 Jan 13 23:06 students drwxrwx--x 40 vaisnavi admin 4096 Jan 15 09:19 vaisnavi drwx------ 34 vimala staff 4096 Dec 14 11:18 vimala There are the relevant lines. K12LTSP5:/etc/exports /home <a href="http://192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw,root_squash,sync)">192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw,root_squash,sync)</a> K12LTSP6:/etc/fstab 192.168.0.254:/home /home nfs defaults 0 0 _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn"> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</a>> </blockquote></div>