Flumoxed

[JJ Neff]

This may very well be... I have the hosts file being served by NIS but I
changed nsswitch.conf to 'files nis' on both the server and the client and
added the server (zeus) to the hosts file.  HOWEVER the client gets its IP #
from DHCP!

How to include this?

Also why would the server authenticate a request for EVERY home drive of every
user in NIS when no one has even tried to login yet?
This is the question that has me most confused...


By the way I was looking at using LDAP in place of NIS and found sparse
documentation (outside of the standard HOWTOs at linuxdoc) but on MandrakeForum
I found some attempts at setting up user authentication using LDAP and I found
a GREAT distro non-specific instructional article here -->
http://online.securityfocus.com/infocus/1427 and at
http://online.securityfocus.com/infocus/1428 <-- part II

I may try this shortly and see if it works any better (although my current
issues appear to be network/autofs related and not NFS related) However LDAP is
definetly the future as NIS is the present/past.

JJN
--- Robert Meyer <meyer_rm at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Sounds to me like you don't have reverse DNS working correctly.  The fact
> that
> it's giving you an P that it's trying to authenticate, rather than a name. 
> Just 'cuz you put the number in teh exports file doesn't mean that it won't
> try
> to do the reverse lookup when you try to mount directories.
> 
> for a test, you could try to put all of your machine IPs in /etc/hosts and
> make
> sure that nsswitch.conf has 'files dns'
> 


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