ISSUE:  

When configuring the VERDE shared storage, where the /home/vb-verde is stored, the subject directory and subsequent directories are owned by nobody:nobody and all VERDE activity fails..

NFS v4 mount may not allow non-root read/write access. However, that same export can be made usable by mounting as v3 changing ownership then re-mounting as v3.

Details:

[root@rhel64 home]# mount
<snip>
172.16.1.234:/vol/vol0/data/nfstest2 on /home/nfstest2 type nfs (rw,noatime,nodiratime,nfsvers=4,addr=172.16.1.234,clientaddr=172.16.100.34)

# NFS v4 mount is owned by nobody:nobody
[root@rhel64 home]# ls -la /home/nfstest2
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 4096 Dec 11 11:33 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root   root   4096 Dec 11 11:41 ..

# Change owner to vb-verde fails with "Invalid argument"
[root@rhel64 home]# chown vb-verde.vb-verde /home/nfstest2
chown: changing ownership of `/home/nfstest2': Invalid argument

# vb-verde cannot write to the NFS mount
[root@rhel64 home]# su - vb-verde
-bash-4.1$ touch /home/nfstest2/testfile
touch: cannot touch `/home/nfstest2/testfile': Permission denied
-bash-4.1$ exit
logout

# Now re-mount same export as NFS v3
[root@rhel64 home]# umount /home/nfstest2
[root@rhel64 home]# mount -t nfs -o rw,nfsvers=3 172.16.1.234:/vol/vol0/data/nfstest2 /home/nfstest2

# Change owner to vb-verde succeeds using NFS v3
[root@rhel64 home]# chown vb-verde.vb-verde /home/nfstest2
[root@rhel64 home]# ls -la /home/nfstest2
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 vb-verde vb-verde 4096 Dec 11  2013 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root     root     4096 Dec 11 11:41 ..

# vb-verde can now write to mount point
[root@rhel64 home]# su - vb-verde
-bash-4.1$ touch /home/nfstest2/testfile
-bash-4.1$ exit
logout
[root@rhel64 home]# ls -la /home/nfstest2
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 vb-verde vb-verde 4096 Dec 11  2013 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root     root     4096 Dec 11 11:41 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vb-verde vb-verde    0 Dec 11  2013 testfile

# Now remount again as NFS v4
[root@rhel64 home]# umount /home/nfstest2
[root@rhel64 home]# mount -t nfs -o rw,nfsvers=4 172.16.1.234:/vol/vol0/data/nfstest2 /home/nfstest2

# Again mount is owned by nobody:nobody
[root@rhel64 home]# ls -la /home/nfstest2
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 4096 Dec 11  2013 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root   root   4096 Dec 11 11:41 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nobody nobody    0 Dec 11  2013 testfile

# *However* vb-verde has full read/write permission now
[root@rhel64 home]# su - vb-verde
-bash-4.1$ touch /home/nfstest2/testfile2
-bash-4.1$ ls -la /home/nfstest2
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 4096 Dec 11 12:33 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root   root   4096 Dec 11 11:41 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nobody nobody    0 Dec 11 12:31 testfile
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nobody nobody    0 Dec 11 12:33 testfile2
-bash-4.1$