Thanks to all who replied to my question:
1 Oct 22 Matthew Stier (62) Re: NIS Netgroup
2 Oct 22 Rodney C. Marable (58) Re: NIS Netgroup
3 Oct 22 Suzanne Taylor (53) Re: NIS Netgroup
4 Oct 22 Teague, Tony (97) RE: NIS Netgroup
Original posting:
>
> Under Solaris 2.4 it was possible to have a /etc/netgroup file in
which
> groups of machines would be
> assigned a group name. The group name could then be used in the
> /etc/dfs/dfstab file to specify
> (conveniently) the machines to which you would like to share some file
> systems. It seems that
> under Solaris 2.6 (3/98 fully patched) that is no longer possible, or
is
> it? Am I missing something?
> I am running NIS on both machines.
And as Matthew Stier pointed out "The only valid values for 'netgroup'
in '/etc/nsswitch.conf' are 'nis' and 'nisplus' "
The above statement is also in /etc/nsswitch.conf file in black and
white, and I missed it.
-Vahid
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