Question with regards to NFS mount

[George Magklaras]

Actually, I second that ("any file manager"). Konqueror gives me a much 
more realictic figure as a non privileged user...Are you mounting with 
nfs2 or nfs3?


George Magklaras wrote:
> One explanation (assuming that your NFS handles are not stale and 
> probably they are not from what you are writing) is that when you use 
> the Gnome File Manager, the userid you are currently logged as and 
> invokes the GFM application does not have sufficient privileges to read 
> all the subdirs under the exported /nas folder. The df reports the 
> result of the export from processes that have permissions to see the 
> entire partition and pass the NFS attributes to the client. That is not 
> true for the GFM (or any file manager that reads parts of an exported fs 
> with certain non global user privileges) and it that case it will 
> silently omit from the sum the dirs or files it does not have access to. 
> If you open (under GFM) the /nas share you should clearly see that some 
> of the dirs are restricted (the icon indicates that with a 'restricted' 
> sign), then you should verify what I am saying. On the contrary, if you 
> executed the file manager on the server side as root, you should get the 
> full story.
> 
> 

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