From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jan 8 10:52:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.itech-usa.com (unknown [63.122.15.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7A42C37B6C8 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 10:39:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 70416 invoked from network); 8 Jan 2001 18:40:06 -0000 Received: from desert.itech-usa.com (HELO oswars.net) (63.122.15.69) by condor.itech-usa.com with SMTP; 8 Jan 2001 18:40:06 -0000 Message-ID: <3A5A8AA9.42700A6E@oswars.net> Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 21:51:05 -0600 From: Chris Tusa Organization: OsWars.net - BSD resource center X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: NFS & NIS interaction issue. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi ya'll, I'm currently running 5 machines with 4.2-stable. I am attempting to consoloidate the home directories on a single machine. I've read the handbook, and searched the internet for FAQs and TUTORIALS but have had no results except confusion. The machines are all sharing via NFS exports. When I create a new user account via 'adduser' on the NIS master, I set the home directory to be on an NFS mount located at '/mnt/nfs/home' when adduser attempts to create the directory, it gives a CHOWN error. I have determined that it is because the userid does not exist on the NFS server hosting the home share. The NFS server is configured as an NIS client. So how can I configure NFS for NIS permissions? I also use QMAIL and want it to distribute EMAIL via the NFS share. Any suggestions, or links would be helpful. Cordially, Chris Tusa webmaster@oswars.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message