Have you checked the ownership and permissions on /Volumes and /Volumes/data? I note from your ls output on superuser.com that /mount/company_users is owned by 'hugh:wheel' rather than something more generic.

You might also want to confirm that the link between /mount/company_users and /Volumes/data/company_users really is a symlink and not a mac alias.

Tim

On 9/03/10 11:46 PM, Hugh Macdonald wrote: > Todd - Thanks for your help - I'll keep working at this one then... > > J.J. - Dir Util allows me to specify the mount point - I'll have a look > at doing it using fstab instead... Personally, I still think that the > NFS side of this is working just fine - it's OSX trying to do something > else on top of this that's causing the problems here. And I'm still on > 10.5.x (server and workstations) here. > > Mat - The users themselves shouldn't be doing this - it's more tied up > in the pipeline and render farm side of things. > > There are two things that I need to be able to do that I can't at the > moment... > > The 'render' user (that all render machines are running as) needs to be > able to sudo (without a password) the command 'runFarmCommand.py' as any > user. This works for now, but usually chucks up warnings about not being > able to find the user's home directory. > > Users need to be able to SSH between machines without needing a password > (for Alfred). At the moment, the user on the remote machine can't access > ~/.ssh/, so the authentication can't happen (this works just fine under > Linux) > > > Any more thoughts most welcome... I was hoping that some of you might > have come across the same issues if you're working with a combined > Linux/OSX setup (although if your server side is Linux, which is > probably most likely, you may not have these problems) > > > Thanks again! > > Hugh Macdonald > nvizible – VISUAL EFFECTS > > +44(0) 207 659 2369 > +44(0) 7773 764 708 > > www.nvizible.com http://www.nvizible.com > > > > On 8 March 2010 21:21, matxdotca matxdotca@gmail.com matxdotca@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 2010-03-08, at 10:44 AM, Hugh Macdonald wrote: > > > The gist of it is that my user's home directories are shared using > NFS (OSX Server -> OSX Workstations), and it's causing permissions > problems when switching to any user other than the one that's logged > on through the GUI. > > Can I ask to what purpose other users are trying to ssh in to a > machine? Is it for your render farm or something else? > > > :) > > Mat X > > > E: matxdotca@gmail.com matxdotca@gmail.com > T: 778-837-1036 > > ? Apple Certified Xsan 2 Admininistrator > ? Apple Certified Media Administrator > ? Apple Certified Pro - Final Cut Server Level One > ? Apple Certified Technical Coordinator (10.6) > ? Apple Certified Support Professional (10.6) > > _ > StudioSysAdmins-Discuss mailing list > StudioSysAdmins-Discuss@mailman.studiosysadmins.com > StudioSysAdmins-Discuss@mailman.studiosysadmins.com > http://mailman.studiosysadmins.com/mailman/listinfo/studiosysadmins-discuss > > > > > _ > StudioSysAdmins-Discuss mailing list > StudioSysAdmins-Discuss@mailman.studiosysadmins.com > http://mailman.studiosysadmins.com/mailman/listinfo/studiosysadmins-discuss

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