NIS Problems

[kevin reichhart]

I have a 9000/800 I'm trying to setup as an NIS client to a Solaris master. I have everything working correctly except for the home directories.

Any suggestions?

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi Kevin:

I'm not sure I understand your question. If you mean, when you create a user on the NIS master, does it create a home directory on each client box? If that is your method then you arte going to have to remsh adduser but the better method is to use the automount and have NIS handle the automount maps. The idea is that when user tom logins of any machine, he actually gets the same home directory which may be on a box far away. The only tricky part about this is that if you are supporting HP-UX, Solaris, IRIX, etc. then your .profiles get fairly complex.

Regards, Clay

[kevin reichhart]

I have a Solaris master with many Solaris clients which work fine. I'm trying to add an HP-UX 11.0 client and the maps are shared and I can login to the HP box with an account stored on the master. However, I can't get the home directories to auto-mount.

[Patrick Wallek]

Did you turn on automounter in /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf? Are your automount maps set up onthe HP box? Automounter is separate from NIS and has to be configured separately.

[kevin reichhart]

I have turned on automounter in /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf. The contents of /etc/auto_master is:

+auto.master
/net -hosts -nosuid,soft


I've also tried with +auto_master.

[kevin reichhart]

hmmm...
could this have something to do with it?

$ automount -f /etc/auto_master -v

Pid 25449 received a SIGSEGV for stack growth failure.
Possible causes: insufficient memory or swap space,
or stack size exceeded maxssiz.
/usr/sbin/automount[17]: 25449 Memory fault(coredump)

[kevin reichhart]

i increased maxssiz and maxssiz_64 to 0X05000000. still get the same dump.