NIS Problems

[Aaron Konstam]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 11:09:15PM +0100, Max Philippens (PD0SBH) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having some trouble setting up NIS on my network. I have the NIS
> server (ypserv 2.9) running on a Slackware 9.1 machine. I can logon to
> my Fedora Core machine using a username defined on the NIS server, at
> logon the home directory (exported on the NIS server) is connected like
> it should be. But the other directory that should be connected isn't
> mounted, well it is but not completly, look at the output of mount on
> the Fedora machine:
> 
> automount(pid3267) on /local type autofs
> (rw,fd=5,pgrp=3267,minproto=2,maxproto=3)
> automount(pid3286) on /home type autofs
> (rw,fd=5,pgrp=3286,minproto=2,maxproto=3)
> paddington:/home/max on /home/max type nfs (rw,addr=192.168.100.200)
> 
> As you can see home/max is mounted two times while /local is only
> mentioned with the automount option. When accesing /local there's
> nothing there.
> 
> The other problem I have is with the output from yptest:
> 
> Test 3: yp_match
> WARNING: No such key in map (Map passwd.byname, key nobody)
> 
> I can't seem to find any info on these problems on the web, anybody have
> any idea what's wrong? Are the problems related or not?
> 
> Thanks,
> Max
I am confused. The command is ypmatch, and it is used by saying
something like: ypmatch djones passwd
which will return the passwd record of djones.

When you login using NIS why should anything but your home directory be
mounted,
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