I have mounted an NFS network share successfully using Webmin. The share seems to be mounted correctly and working correctly. If I login as root I can browse the share just fine.
However, I cannot seem to give another user access to read/write to this network share. When I look at the permissions I can see that it is owned by root and the group crontab can use the share.
$ ls -las
4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 11 23:35 .
4 drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Nov 11 23:35 ..
8 drwxrwx---+ 23 root crontab 4096 Feb 15 2013 private
I tried giving a user access by adding them to the crontab group. However the user could not access the share.
$ groups
scott adm cdrom sudo dip plugdev crontab lpadmin sambashare
$ cd private/
-bash: cd: private/: Permission denied
So just to see whats going on I changed the user to the owner. The user could then access the share. Cool, but why didn't the group permissions work?
$ sudo chown scott:crontab private/
$ ls -las
4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 11 23:35 .
4 drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Nov 11 23:35 ..
8 drwxrwx---+ 23 scott crontab 4096 Feb 15 2013 private
How do I get the NFS mounted share to be accessible by any user in the group crontab?
Note: I originally posted this question on ubuntu's stack but I'm not getting any responses.