[Lustre-discuss] Unable to write to the Lustre File System as any user except root

[Kilian CAVALOTTI]

Hi Carl,

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Barberi, Carl E
<carl.e.barberi at lmco.com> wrote:
> “ LustreError: 11-0: an error occurred while communicating with
> 192.168.10.2 at o2ib.  The mds_getxattr operation failed with -13.”

You likely miss authentication information on your MDS about the user
you're trying to write as.
Just configure NIS, LDAP or whatever you're using on your MDS, and you
should be good to go.

Cheers,
-- 
Kilian