From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 5 11:36:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FAA215217 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 11:35:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id OAA14210; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 14:44:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199903051944.OAA14210@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: NFS & NIS Problems In-Reply-To: <36E0241E.828CDBB0@fisicc-ufm.edu> from "Otto E. Solares" at "Mar 5, 99 12:36:14 pm" To: solca@fisicc-ufm.edu (Otto E. Solares) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 14:44:09 -0500 (EST) Cc: jktheowl@bga.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Otto E. Solares wrote, > We have only a master server "zeus.adm.fisicc-ufm.edu", > no slaves, one NIS domain "olympia.fisicc" and all clients ^^^^^^^^^ > are in time synch with zeus. > > The clients used to be in the same network with the > server (192.168.1.0) but that was when we was setting up > the clients 1 by 1 so we have no chance to see if has the > same problems, now each lab contains like 40 clients, we have > 4 labs (lab1: 192.168.2.0 lab2: 192.168.3.0 lab3:192.168.4.0 > and lab4: 192.168.5.0) The clients are almost 95% the day > in windows and a few days we have like 60 in FreeBSD > (student projects), very tipically it hangs in X with the user > logged in and display a message like RPC time out. I think this is your problem. NIS is intended to be run over a LAN (it uses broadcast UDP messages). Client-server communications start to get really funky on a WAN. The most straight forward way to fix this is to run a slave server on each LAN. Keeping up a client-server relationship over a WAN, in my personal experience, requires a bit of Deep NIS Magic. Of course, I was mixing OSs as well which compounded my problems. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message