[gentoo-user] Subdirectories on NFS server missing 'executable' permission

[Ralph Seichter]

Hi list members,

I set up Gentoo as an NFS server, and I am experiencing problems with
one of my NFS clients. When this specific client creates new directories
within the NFS-exported directory, the permissions are 0644 instead of
0755 ('executable' is missing). The client does not allow passing any
arguments when mounting a remote directory, so I wonder if this can be
fixed on the server side? My exports configuration looks like this:

# /etc/exports
/mnt/foo 192.168.235.0/24(rw,async,all_squash,no_subtree_check,anonuid=1003,anongid=1003,insecure)
/mnt/bar 192.168.235.0/24(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check,anonuid=1003,anongid=1003,insecure)

Both /mnt/foo and /mnt/bar were created like this:

mkdir /mnt/foo && chown root:root /mnt/foo && chmod 1777 /mnt/foo

It does not matter whether the client creates a new directory in /mnt/foo
or /mnt/bar, the executable bit is always missing.

Your ideas are appreciated. Thanks!

-Ralph