From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 5 12:14:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fisicc-ufm.edu (unknown [209.198.197.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E410F1522F for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 12:14:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from solca@fisicc-ufm.edu) Received: from fisicc-ufm.edu (samsara.fisicc-ufm.edu [209.198.197.197]) by fisicc-ufm.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA15391; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 14:20:22 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from solca@fisicc-ufm.edu) Message-ID: <36E03965.57323E3@fisicc-ufm.edu> Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 14:07:01 -0600 From: "Otto E. Solares" Organization: FISICC-UFM X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cjclark@home.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS & NIS Problems References: <199903051944.OAA14210@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Crist J. Clark" wrote: > 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 I will try the NIS slave, but what happens if i run a NIS slave in each client for speed, can be any trouble, suggestions??? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message