I may be mixing up samba and nfs here, but I think NFS mounts
can take user= and password= options.. i.e:

mount -t nfs -o user=root,password=badpassword barney:/home /home/barney

Worth a try I guess...

Eden

From: "Craig White" <craigwhite@azapple.com>
> This is probably second nature to most of you but I am now playing with
> multiple linux boxes and have started to use NFS.
>
> if I am logged on to one system as root and I mount a different system,
i.e.
>
> mount -t nfs barney:/home /home/barney
>
> and then cd to /home/barney I see all of the folders in barney:/home but
> most of them report 0 items when I cd into a folder and ls. I presume that
> the problem has to do with the fact that I am root on my host machine but
> not really root on the remote machine. How can I mount exported systems as
> though I am root?