Thanx to
Rasana Atreya
Tom Hinze
Arthur J. Byrnes
Thomas Carter
Tom Erickson
Shawn Kondel
Their help pointed me in the right direction.
Rick Rote
From: Rasana Atreya <rasana_atreya@hotmail.com> on 11/04/99 05:04 PM
To: Richard Rote/DISA/REGION_B@REGION_B
cc:
Subject: Re: NISPLUS
I bet the on the machines you end up in /, the home directory of the user
you're trying to login as does not exist. If you create the home directory
and try logging in again, you'll be placed in the home directory.
Also f the user's home directory is in a different location, you could have
the same problem.
Rasana
From: Tom Hinze <hinze@ties.k12.mn.us> on 11/04/99 04:06 PM
To: Richard Rote/DISA/REGION_B@REGION_B
cc:
Subject: Re: NISPLUS
Rick,
Have you checked that the auto_home map is being updated
(nisgrep user auto_home.org_dir) and that the workstation you
are testing at has automountd running on it? Also in the
/etc/dfs/dfstab are there any restrictions on clients the
server shares home dirs with?
Tom
From: "Arthur J. Byrnes" <abyrnes@stetson.edu> on 11/04/99 04:04 PM
To: Richard Rote/DISA/REGION_B@REGION_B
cc:
Subject: Re: NISPLUS
At 02:21 PM 11/4/99 -0500, you wrote:
>BUT when I go different
>workstation and log in as the new user I get placed in the / directory.
Does this continue to happen on the same account?
I ask, because I have seen it take as long as 10 minutes for the
data about a new user to propagate within a network of even just
3 machines.
You can decrease this time by performing a nisping;
/usr/lib/nis/nisping -C -a
Immediately after adding the new user. It may still take 1-2
minutes for the slaves to get all of the necessary data.
I don't know where it is written, but this is normal
behaviour. Since your station is the nis master, it gets the
data almost immediately, while the slaves don't...
Good Luck,
From: Thomas Carter <tcarter@memc.com> on 11/04/99 04:36 PM
To: Richard Rote/DISA/REGION_B@REGION_B
cc:
Subject: Re: NISPLUS
Did you check to make sure automountd and nfs was running on
the workstations?
You can start them by:
/etc/init.d/nfs.client start
/etc/init.d/autofs start
The other issue is it sometimes takes a few minutes for the
NIS+ information to
propogate out to all the clients. Check back 15 minutes later
to see if it works then.
Thomas Carter
MEMC Southwest
From: Tom Erickson <Thomas.M.Erickson.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> on 11/05/99 09:02
AM
To: Richard Rote/DISA/REGION_B@REGION_B
cc:
Subject: RE: NISPLUS
Sounds like the user home directories are being created
on a fs that isn't shared out correctly. Check the
dfstab file and make sure you are sharing those directories
to the machines you want to access them. Also, if you
have a root replica server, it sometimes takes a little
while (5-10 minutes maybe) for the nis+ tables to be
updated there. Remember, NIS+ requests are serviced
by the root replica server if there is one. To reduce
the table update time from 5-10 minutes to seconds, you
could do a nisping -C org_dir to force the update of the
root replica tables.
Tom Erickson
From: Shawn Kondel <shawnk@math.usu.edu> on 11/05/99 11:31 AM
To: Richard Rote/DISA/REGION_B@REGION_B
cc:
Subject: Re: NISPLUS
you need to let user have access, look into nischmod command
Hope this will work out.
Also check the following,
1) that workstation is nis+ client
2) the NIS_COLD_START and NIS_SHARED_CACHE files exist in /var/nis/data
3) automount daemon is running
4) have share access from nfs server.
5) wait 2 minutes before workstation nis+ cache get updated from the nis+
master
>From: "Rote, Richard" <rrote@ncr.disa.mil>
>To: sun-managers@sunmanagers.ececs.uc.edu
>Subject: NISPLUS
>Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 14:21:18 -0500
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>
>All
>
>1. I am running NISPLUS on Solaris 2.6 with current patches. User
accounts
>are on NFS server running 2.5.1
>2. Solstice is used to add user accounts.
>3. Several times after I add the user's account, I am able to log in as
the
>new user with their home directory in the proper directory on NFS server
>from my workstation which is the NISPLUS server. BUT when I go different
>workstation and log in as the new user I get placed in the / directory.
>4. I have check the FAQs and other source with no luck.
>
>Thanx
>
>Rick Rote
>
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