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
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).
Is full server (non-master) functionality going to be included in the future? It would be very useful and would allow the filer to be more robust.
Bruce
"Andrew" == Bond, Andrew abond@netapp.com wrote the following on Tue, 28 Mar 2000 00:53:07 -0800
Andrew> The filer does not copy the NIS maps into /etc. NIS group Andrew> information is cached, but otherwise the filer acts as a NIS Andrew> client only, and will query the NIS server it has bound to ("nis Andrew> info" will tell you which this is).
Andrew:
Thanks for the info. I can't seem to get the Filer to lookup netgroup information via NIS. If I manually place a system's name in the exports file, the system can then mount the volume. If I use an NIS netgroup name for which the system is a member, I cannot mount the volume.
Is there a way to see what NIS information the Filer thinks it has cached?
Tim
-
Bond, Andrew -
Bruce Sterling Woodcock -
Timothy Demarest