Re: Help with NIS+NFS in Squeeze

[Mark Neyhart <Mark.Neyhart@akleg.gov>]

Markos wrote:
> Dear Bob,
> 
> Em Dom, 2013-02-03 Ã s 12:48 -0700, Bob Proulx escreveu:
>> Markos wrote:

>>> But I can manually mount the /home partition on the clients with the
>>> command:
>>>
>>> mount 192.168.0.1:/home /home
>> Good.
>>

The ip address in the above mount command agrees with the address in
/etc/network/interfaces.

> The file /etc/network/interfaces of the server is:
> 
> # The loopback network interface
> it self
> inet loopback iface it
> 
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet static
> address 192.168.0.1
> netmask 255.255.255.0
>

But the ip address you list below in /etc/fstab does not agree with
the address in etc/network/interfaces.


> I copied these options from a site. I was thinking to simplify and
> replace with just "defaults"
> 
> 192.168.10.101:/home /home nfs defaults 0 0
> 

You should replace 192.168.10.101 with 192.168.0.1

>>In /etc/nsswitch.conf file:
>>
>>   passwd:         files nis
>>   group:          files nis
>>   shadow:         files nis
>>
>
>Ok.
>
>But what about the files /etc/passwd ... /etc/gshadow. Should remove
>the "+" at the end of these files?
>

If you modify the /etc/nsswitch.conf as Bob recommends, remove the +
at the end of /etc/passwd ... /etc/gshadow.

Mark Neyhart