Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 21:26:02 -0600 (CST) From: John Kenagy <jktheowl@bga.com> To: "Otto E. Solares" <solca@fisicc-ufm.edu> Cc: cjclark@home.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS & NIS Problems Message-ID: <199903060326.VAA01066@bga.com> In-Reply-To: <36E03965.57323E3@fisicc-ufm.edu> References: <199903051944.OAA14210@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <36E03965.57323E3@fisicc-ufm.edu>
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Otto E. Solares writes: > "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??? > I think you mean one slave in each lab, right? Then all of the _other_ clients in the lab are served by it. So you will wind up with one master and 4 slave servers, the rest are clients. John PS Any other tidbits anyone can come up with would help me re-write my tutorial. Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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