nfsnobody ?

[Bob Goodwin]

My daughter loaded a bunch of vacation pictures [du -h shows 5.7G} on to 
my Linux nfs server from her Mac portable via our wireless LAN last night.

I can see that the files are there but I can't view them directly, in 
fact I can only list directories part way through the tree and they are 
long directory names!

However although I can't view them as root either I can copy the files 
to this computer and view the images with gthumb. The owner changes in 
the copying process which appears to be what makes them accessible to me.

I don't quite understand how this all works, I've messed with owners and 
groups before when I observed this problem without success. I certainly 
don't want to copy all those files to this computer just to look at a 
few pix.

For example:

    [bobg at box9 ~]$ ll
    /mnt/srvr2/HOLIDAY-SanFRANCISCO-24Aug-3Sep-2009/04-Holiday-27-Aug-2009/
    total 108
    drwxrwxrwx. 2 nfsnobody nfsnobody 106496 2009-09-04 19:01
    00-ADJ-MuirWoods-Sausalito-Coastal-Redwoods


How do I deal with the owner "nfsnobody?"

Any help appreciated ...

Bob

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