nfs networking - can't access sub-directories

[bendy]

Question from a networking noob.....

I have gentoo installed on a new laptop, and debian on an old one. I want to tranfer files from old to new using nfs. I have set up an nfs server on the old debian machine and rpcinfo -p shows everything working.

/etc/exports contains /home 192.168.1.101(ro)

The gentoo client is set up and I can mount the home directory from the server, and then cd to a user subdirectory (e.g. /home/nick/ and read it's contents. However, when I cd to another subdirectory level lower (e.g. /home/nick/Mail), I can't see or copy any of the files that I know are there.

Does anyone know what's happening here? Is there some nfs directory depth limit I don't know about? All suggestions gratefully recieved......

bendy.

[rac]

Just a guess, but maybe the numerical user ids of your user account on these two machines is not the same, so you are getting permission errors. Either make everything world-readable and all directories world-executable on the server side on the directories you wish to browse, or make a new user on the Gentoo machine explicitly specifying the user id (see the adduser man page for details) to match the one on the Debian machine (you can find it in /etc/passwd, for one).
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