[expert] NIS problems.

[=?x-unknown?q?Pe=F1a_Arellano_Fabian_Erasmo?=]

        Hello,

        I am trying to set up a NIS server an client by the first time and
I am having a client problem with it. I have been following the steps
provided at Mandrake Campus:

        http://www.mandrakecampus.org/

        The problem is a conflict between the server's groups' id numbers
and their clients' counterparts. When issuing "ls -l" in the same
directory shared through NFS one always gets different files group
ownwer. The shared partition is /home/. On the server side everything
works right:

[fabian@ahuizotl fabian]$ id fabian
uid=500(fabian) gid=504(fabian) grupos=504(fabian)
[fabian@ahuizotl fabian]$ ls -l
total 700
drwxr-xr-x    3 fabian   fabian       4096 feb 22 13:28 Desktop/
-rw-r--r--    1 fabian   fabian     685420 feb  9 11:36 giroide.ps
drwx------    2 fabian   fabian       4096 feb 22 19:42 mail/
drwx------    2 fabian   fabian       4096 feb 20 12:50 nsmail/
-rw-r--r--    1 fabian   fabian         54 feb 21 14:13 telfonos
drwxr-xr-x    3 fabian   fabian       4096 feb 21 10:31 tesis/
drwx------    2 fabian   fabian       4096 feb 20 11:33 tmp/  

But on the client side, the gid 504 belongs to ntools

[fabian@ixtlan fabian]$ id fabian
uid=500(fabian) gid=504(ntools) grupos=504(ntools)
[fabian@ixtlan fabian]$ ls -l
total 700
drwxr-xr-x    3 fabian   ntools       4096 feb 22 13:28 Desktop/
-rw-r--r--    1 fabian   ntools     685420 feb  9 11:36 giroide.ps
drwx------    2 fabian   ntools       4096 feb 22 19:42 mail/
drwx------    2 fabian   ntools       4096 feb 20 12:50 nsmail/
-rw-r--r--    1 fabian   ntools         54 feb 21 14:13 telfonos
drwxr-xr-x    3 fabian   ntools       4096 feb 21 10:31 tesis/
drwx------    2 fabian   ntools       4096 feb 20 11:33 tmp/    

        I want to share through the local network files for authentication
porpouses. So, there is the following entrace in the /var/yp/Makefile
file in the server:

        all:  passwd group shadow

Besides that there are as well:

        MINUID=500
        MINGID=500
        MERGE_PASSWD=false
        MERGE_GROUP=true

        The last line in the client's /etc/passwd file is 

        +::::::

        The last line in the client's /etc/group file is

        :::

        And the last line in the client's /etc/shadow file is 

        :::::::
     

        Any help would be appreciated. Thanks for reading this e-mail.

        Fabian.