Re: Troubleshooting NIS
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On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 12:38 +1000, Gerard Sharpe wrote:
> Phil wrote:
> > I'm trying to setup some servers at school. I'm using NIS because I've use it
> > before an it was easy.
> >
> > ypserv and ypbind come up as running on their respective machines, but the
> > client machine - at first seemed to authenticate and then give "can';t write
> > to /home folder" messages and now seems not to authenticate at all.
> >
> > NFS is up and running. I can see and access the server's home folders from
> > the client machine.
> >
> > Where does one start to trouble shoot?
> >
> >
> Hi Phil,
>
> Check that the portmap daemon is running on the NFS server:
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> $ ps auxw | grep portmap
> daemon 126 0.0 0.0 1380 432 ? Ss May30 0:00 /sbin/portmap
> ---
>
> Check the server is responding by using rpcinfo on the client:
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> /usr/bin/rpcinfo -p <server_name>
> ---
>
> What do you have in your /etc/exports file?
> What logging in messages/syslog do you get when you startup ypbind/ypserv?
>
>
> R
> Gerard
>
>
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