i'm getting a little beowulf cluster together and am having trouble getting parts of /etc to be shared through nfs.
'sigemund' is the master node, running the nfs server and acting as the gateway for the other (3) nodes. sigemund has a /beowulf , which in turn has an etc directory, which has in it the files i wish to share with the client nodes. 'janice' is a client, and has sigemund:/beowulf mounted on /beowulf. janice:/etc/passwd is a symlink to /beowulf/etc/passwd. this passwd file has legitimate account info in it; it right now is a copy of sigemund:/etc/passwd. i've done the same with shadow and group. i ssh into sigemund fine, then telnet into janice: -- BEGIN PASTED TEXT -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/eafarris$ telnet janice Trying 192.168.0.3... Connected to janice (192.168.0.3). Escape character is '^]'. Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 janice janice login: eafarris Login timed out after 60 seconds. Connection closed by foreign host. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/eafarris$ --END PASTED TEXT -- so what gives? i know nfs is working ok, because the file systems are mounted. /etc/<stuff> is symlinked into /beowulf/etc/<stuff>. i can (well, not now, i've broken logins, but i could before i tried this) cat /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, and things look ok. i made sure the permissions on /beowulf/etc/<stuff> match an existing system. i have a feeling that shadow is biting me. are /etc/passwd and the corresponding /etc/shadow machine specific? if so, how do i do this? what i want is to be able to change the /beowulf/etc/* files on sigemund, and therefore create the user on the other nodes. tia for any help you can offer. -- eric a. Farris [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.bigfoot.com/~eafarris Systems Administrator Appalachian Laboratory, UMCES www.al.umces.edu If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed... oh, wait, he does. The more that you read / The more things you will know The more that you learn / The more places you'll go.
