My exports file is as follows: /home 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw,no_root_squash) /var/cache/redcarpet 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw,no_root_squash)
I know it is stupidly insecure, but it makes it easy for me inside the network, and I have a IPTables set not to let it through to my net connection. My internal home network is using dhcp for most settings supplied by the server. Regards, Karl Bowden ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicholas Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 11:04 AM Subject: Re: FW: [SLUG] NIS login problems > Karl, > > I tried this option yesterday, and tried it again this morning as suggested. > Everytime I reboot or try to mount /home I get "permission denied" from the > server. I am able to mount other directories (i.e. /tmp/linux which has all > the rmp's in it) from the server. > > On the server my /etc/exports file reads: > > /tmp/linux *(ro) > /home *.eversham.net(rw,all_squash) > > (note, I have also tried this with: > /home *(rw) > whithout luck ) > > how do you set up your /etc/exports?? > > rgds, > > Nick Reese > > > >From: "Nicholas Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: FW: [SLUG] NIS login problems > >Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 03:29:41 +1000 > > > > > > > >rgds, > > > >Nick Reese > > > >Linux earns mindshare, Microsoft buys it... > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf > >Of Karl Bowden > >Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 6:02 PM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: [SLUG] NIS login problems > > > >X would apper to log in because it cannot find any files in the home > >directory, and so it just restarts the X server. If you mount the home > >directory in the fstab file with something like: > >10.0.0.1:/home /home nfs defaults 0 0 > >Then the directory will be automatically mounted when you turn on the > >computer. (that is the line i use in my fstab file anywhy. I also mount > >/var/cache/redcarpet, for all the computers on my home network. then you > >do > >not have to download the packages for every computer when updating them > >with > >redcarpet). > > > >Regards, > > > >Karl Bowden > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Using Redhat 7.1 > > > > > > I have checked out what all the posibilies could be but I just can't > >seem > >to > > > crack it. > > > > > > NIS works fine. I can ypwhich from the clients and they pick up the > >server > > > no probs. > > > > > > When I try to login at the GUI login dialog it accepts the login, > >seems to > > > be logging in (X flickers) then drops back out to the login dialog. > > > > > > I put +:::::: in /etc/passwd and +::: in /etc/group and have changed > > > /etc/nsswitch to default to NIS on the client. > > > > > > Do I have to have auto.home and auto.master in the NIS maps? Do I have > >to > > > automount /home on the client? > > > > > > If anyone has some ideas and example config files it would be greatly > > > appreciated. > > > > > > regards, > > > > > > Nick Reese > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
