Hi all; I have a Centos 4.1 server and three FC4 workstations in my little network. I just started using NIS for authentication and NFS for /home serving. For fun I did a quick Ubuntu install on one machine, and ran into the wall when it came to differences between groups/GIDs. For example, Debian has the audio group GID 29, and RH/FC has rpcusers at 29, and RH/FC doesn't seem to have an audio group, so my Ubuntu machine user couldn't get access to the sound card unless I granted access using pam_group on the client. I like the idea of NOT having to touch the client, just controlling access from the server. I'm wondering if others have built mixed networks and run into this problem, and what can be done about it. It seems that in order for things to work right one needs to go with Redhat on the server and Redhat on the desktop, or Debian on the server and Debian on the dekstop, but that mixing won't work right. Another very wierd thing was that before I was using NIS and just using NFS for /home, even if I set UIDs and usernames and GIDs and group names to be the same on the Centos server and the Ubuntu workstation, the Ubuntu machine couldn't get access to some directories I was attempting to share with NFS. Then I switched on NIS and they worked. -P
