topic Re: NFS & NIS Access problem in Operating System - HP-UX

NFS & NIS Access problem

Jollyjet — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 05:19:42 GMT

Hi All

Nis primary and Secondary server is here from client we are using rlogin it is not taking the home directory path from nis it is logging in to the current directory itself and if im trying to give pwd im a getting a message like permission denied.it is not happening regularly some times i face this issue if a user is working now if he logs off and logging again he is facing this issue only for few users we are facing the issue if the user is trying to login from different machine at same time its happening. any one can help me in this case

Re: NFS & NIS Access problem

V. Nyga — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:53:41 GMT

Hi,

any differences if you use 'ypwhich' when this happens?
Are there differences between primary and secondary server?
Different user-id's?
Are this also local users or only nis users?

Volkmar

Re: NFS & NIS Access problem

Dave Olker — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:55:30 GMT

Hi,

It would help to use a specific example. Do you have a user account in this environment that demonstrates this problem every time? If so then let's focus on that one user and see if we can get it working.

On the NIS client system, I'd want to see the /etc/passwd file, the /etc/nsswitch.conf file, and the output from the following commands:

# ypcat -k passwd
# ypcat -k ypservers
# ypwhich -m

That would be the first round of data I'd need to see to troubleshoot the problem.

Regards,

Dave

Re: NFS & NIS Access problem

Craig Johnson_1 — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:30:05 GMT

My guess is that you have an error in the NIS passwd map. If you are modifying the maps it is likely the error is moving around causing the erratic behaviour you are seeing. Check the passwd file you are building the map from very carefully. Look for blank lines and spaces where there shouldn't be any.

Re: NFS & NIS Access problem

Jollyjet — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:57:44 GMT

HI,

It's a NPT Network time protocal error time is not synchronised properly with the server so the NIS is not communicating properly to the server.

Re: NFS & NIS Access problem

Jollyjet — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 01:01:04 GMT

hi things are fine thank's for the help