Well.. thanks again! The list gave me a lot of insights.. but...
I got the solution ( I think ) from a Sun engineer...
My authentication server has a name of greater than 16 bytes...
so... the password authentication halts even before it gets
out of the PC and back onto the net. There is a patch for
this problem coming to me from the Sun people themselves. So
I'll post the patch details
MAny thanks to
mikep!mikep@eng.dowjones.com (Mike Palma)
for calling me with details....
and
Geert Jan de Groot <geertj@ica.philips.nl>
for trying to call me with details
And Many thanks to
"Ron Werther" <RONW@hera.ice.nl>
Brian Safford <bsaffo01@cad.gmeds.com>
Christian.Hnilica@alcatel.co.at (Christian Hnilica)
Geert Jan de Groot <geertj@ica.philips.nl>
Geoff Halprin <Geoff.Halprin@fulcrum.oz.au>
Jason.Hargis@PII.COM (Jason Hargis)
Joe P. DeCello <jpd@cad1.cl.msu.edu>
Kandi Kirk <kk@ccrwest.org>
Mr T Crummey (DIJ) <tom@sees.bangor.ac.uk>
Perry_Hutchison.Portland@xerox.com
andrico@parcplace.com (Liesl Andrico)
bert@spike.penril.com (Bert Robbins)
bmecca@wea.com (Buddy Mecca)
caxwgk@pki-nbg.philips.de (Wolfgang Kuehnel )
chughey@tango.cos.com (Carl Hughey)
danny@ews7.dseg.ti.com
eckhard@ts.go.dlr.de (Eckhard Rueggeberg)
esri!arian!houman@uunet.UU.NET (Houman Safai @ 1579)
fireball!poage@ucdavis.edu (Tom Poage)
gary@mstr.hgc.edu (Gary Trail)
gwolsk@sei.com (Guntram Wolski)
hkatz@nucmed.NYU.EDU (Henry Katz)
hoogs@alc.com (Tim Hoogasian)
kene@indy500.Central.Sun.COM (Ken Erickson (SSE -Indiana Office))
macphed@dvinci.usask.ca (Ian MacPhedran)
mike_titus <mike@sleepy.haystack.edu>
nagel@post.inf-wiss.ivp.uni-konstanz.de
pingel@oieng.mke.ab.com (Bob Pingel (4439))
pjw@sma.usna.navy.MIL (Peter J. Welcher -- math FACULTY <pjw@sma.usna.navy.MIL>)
poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
rnt@math.ias.edu (Robert N. Thompson)
schneide@scubed.scubed.com (Steve Schneider)
stern@sunne.East.Sun.COM (Hal Stern - NE Area Systems Engineer)
strombrg@hydra.acs.uci.edu
ups!upstage!glenn@fourx.Aus.Sun.COM (Glenn Satchell - Uniq Professional Services)
uusr152!frank@uu2.psi.com (Frank DeBolt)
vasey@issi.com
Original posting
> My network of Sparcs and PC's has always had a little glich. When the
> user turns on their pc runing any of the versions of PCNFS that we
> have here, they are prompted for user name and password. Now I have
> never been able to make this work. It wasn't a serious problem until
> I installed PC-NFS lifeline. Now my users need to log in as a user
> and not nobody, so they can read their mail! I've gone through the
> PCNFS manuals over and over... They indicate that I need to do
> a NET NISDOMAIN and a NET NISSET command initially.... This I in fact
> do. But there doesn't seem to be anything else to do. Now I am not
> sure if there is something on the server side that needs doing.
> Well, the server is a Sun4 4/370 running 4.1.1. The version of PCNFS
> is 3.5 in this case. And the error I get is the user authentication
> one... where the username and password are asked for, but are never
> accepted.
Susan KJ Thielen Application Programmer, System Manager
Robarts Research Institute Phone: (519) 663-3833
PO Box 5015, 100 Perth Drive Fax: (519) 663-3789
London, ON N6A 5K8 E-mail: thielen@irus.rri.uwo.ca
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