On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 11:09:15PM +0100, Max Philippens (PD0SBH) wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having some trouble setting up NIS on my network. I have the NIS > server (ypserv 2.9) running on a Slackware 9.1 machine. I can logon to > my Fedora Core machine using a username defined on the NIS server, at > logon the home directory (exported on the NIS server) is connected like > it should be. But the other directory that should be connected isn't > mounted, well it is but not completly, look at the output of mount on > the Fedora machine: > > automount(pid3267) on /local type autofs > (rw,fd=5,pgrp=3267,minproto=2,maxproto=3) > automount(pid3286) on /home type autofs > (rw,fd=5,pgrp=3286,minproto=2,maxproto=3) > paddington:/home/max on /home/max type nfs (rw,addr=192.168.100.200) > > As you can see home/max is mounted two times while /local is only > mentioned with the automount option. When accesing /local there's > nothing there. > > The other problem I have is with the output from yptest: > > Test 3: yp_match > WARNING: No such key in map (Map passwd.byname, key nobody) > > I can't seem to find any info on these problems on the web, anybody have > any idea what's wrong? Are the problems related or not? > > Thanks, > Max I am confused. The command is ypmatch, and it is used by saying something like: ypmatch djones passwd which will return the passwd record of djones. When you login using NIS why should anything but your home directory be mounted, -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
