The filer does not copy the NIS maps into /etc. NIS group information is cached, but otherwise the filer acts as a NIS client only, and will query the NIS server it has bound to ("nis info" will tell you which this is).
Regards, Andrew
-----Original Message----- From: owner-dl-toasters@netapp.com [mailto:owner-dl-toasters@netapp.com]On Behalf Of Timothy Demarest Sent: 28 March 2000 09:32 To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: NIS and netgroup file
Is there any magic in getting a Filer running 5.3.4R3 with NIS on to do netgroup lookups via NIS? Or do you always have to manually copy the netgroup file to filer:/etc?
I've tried putting just "nis" in the nsswitch.conf file for netgroup, but this didn't work. The nis_group file is updated just fine, but this seems o be the only NIS file that the Filer updates in /etc.
Thanks.
-- Timothy Demarest ArrayComm, Inc. demarest@arraycomm.com 2480 N. 1st Street, Suite 200 http://www.arraycomm.com San Jose, CA 95131