Folder permission (nfs)

There are a few linux machines in my company which have their /home and /home/scans/data directory mapped from the nfs server.

Therefore I believe the permissions of directories on these linux machines will be inherited from the nfs server too?

I need to access the /home/scans/data directory in one of the Linux machines, and make changes in other folders/files in it.

Unfortunately, in the linux machine, I can't even do an ls -la from /home/scans :

Code:

lychee:/home/scans# ls -la

ls: cannot open directory .: Permission denied

lychee:/home/scans#

To check the permissions of /home/scans :

Code:

lychee:/home/scans# ls -ld /home/scans

drwxr-x--x 10 root nta 4096 2010-02-01 12:14 /home/scans

The permission in the nfs server for /home/scans/data is :

Code:

date:~# ls -ld /home/scans/data

drwxrws--T 176 root testdata 12288 2014-03-10 17:22 /home/scans/data

In the linux machine, I am logged in as root. And as I can see from the output above, root has rwx on the directory above.

So why can't I access the folder even with these permissions for root?

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