OK, magpie is the NIS mater/pop3 server and wombat is the file server
magpie:/# ls -la /home/fred
ls: /home/fred: Permission denied
magpie:/# ls -la /home/
total 132
drwxr-xr-x 30 root root 4096 Aug 7 12:34 .
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 Jan 11 2005 ..
-------snip-------
drwx--x--x 8 fred group 4096 Aug 8 16:40 fred
-------snip-------
>as well as your mount statements from /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/hda1 / ext2 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
wombat:/home /home nfs rw 0 0 0
I'm almost certian it's because some file somewhere on wombat is now owned by root and it wasn't before.
The only other thing that changed is the files holding users passwords.
Perhaps the NIS maps can't be written to the directory on the fileserver because it's owned by root? Maybe this is why the pop3 server keeps asking for the password after a password change on the NIS master? I don't know a lot about how NIS keeps the passwords in sync between the two machines. I'm pretty sure it's the NIS password for the linux account that is the issue and not the SAMBA password.
I hope that helps to explain what my issue is.
Thanks,
Michael.
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