>I am not sure. Experiment with it and read the documentation. Its
>probably now time to reveal a terrible secret - I've never set up an
>NFS/NIS server in my life! ;-)
terrible! Ghastly, I tell you!
1 > user on the client machine.
>
>In which case, you have to make sure that the id of every user listed in
>the NIS passwd is unique. I.e. if rajeev is id 1984 on the NIS server,
>there should not be a user with the same id on the client. I suspect
>that there is a user sind who has the same id as rajeev on NIS. One >way
Well, I solved this by, deleting all client users and changing the search
order in nsswitch.conf.
Remember the blinking name problem I mentioned earlier. Well I found that
this was what happened when I typed in the auto.home file in the server
(according to those previous instructions). The contents of auto.home was
this
rajeev 192.168.1.1:/home/rajeev
the auto.master contained the line
/home /etc/auto.home -nosuid
The result of an autofs status (after reloading)
was that home was an active mount point, but
# ls /home
(the real one) gave nothing
If I removed the auto.home (or infact, if I disabled autofs) then I was able
to login, but I got those fh_verify..error = 1, acc =13 errors on the
server. The autofs status did not show home as an active mount point
I have a few questions. There have been a couple queries on /misc, autofs on
the list. I can't understand the jargon.
1) What is autofs actually used for?
2) What is automount for
3) What is an active mountpoint
4) Why -nosuid in auto.master
5) Even with those fh_verify, errors, the users are able to logon and read
and write to their home directories. Even X-windows works. Where exactly
will a problem crop up?
6) Every Documentation on NIS and NFS that we have come across (including
the so called brilliant howtos), do not mention auto.master, autofs or any
other such thing. What's worse, is that no documentation links nfs and nis
together, which is the core of all our problems. Can you suggest a decent
source which does! B.T.W to all other aspirant networkers/sysads, I would
certainly not suggest something as vague as those howtos, for reading!!
Rajeev
>to ensure this is to start giving out user IDs that are high on the
>server. Or implement some kind of policy.
>
> > However, when I logged in as rajeev, it produced
> > the bash# prompt. I was able to write in to /u/rajeev (after shifting to
>it)
> > succesfully, with the only problem being that the same
> > error(fh_verify...) was displayed on the server.
>
>I think the user id problem mentioned above is the reason.
>
>Thaths
>
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