On Thu, 23 Jan 1997 09:42:29 -0500 (EST) 
 Mike Frisch <mfrisch@saturn.tlug.org> wrote:

 > I'm just guessing here, but would this have something to do with the
 > "norootquash" option of my NFS server?

I would definitely say that has something to do with it :-)

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