I have developed a problem using the netgroup map on our NIS server that resulted in having to copy the netgroup file to the filer and changing the nsswitch.conf file to point to the local file. This first occurred our F740 running OnTap 5.2.3 and continued after I upgraded to 5.3.4R3. The netgroup file used to have a mixture of systems with and without FQDN. Right before this occurred all were set to FQDN. I know there was a bug with using fully qualified names but that was supposedly fixed in later OnTap OS's.

Example: Netgroup with FQDN feather.llnl.gov Without FQDN feather

The interesting thing is that I can use a file with FQDN on the filer but not on the NIS server. As an experiment, I modified the netgroup file on the NIS server and took out FQDN, pushed out the maps, set the filer to use the maps and I could again mount the home directories on clients. If I changed back to FQDN, it will not let me mount from clients unless I use the netgroup file local to the filer.

Any ideas?

P.S. I want my mail to go to my alias instead of to a specific machine. How do I change that, unsubscribe and subscribe won't work, will it? Need to be cruddace1@llnl.gov instead of cruddace@feather.llnl.gov.