From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 18 05:17:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id FAA09971 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 18 Jan 1997 05:17:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from m1.cs.man.ac.uk (0@m1.cs.man.ac.uk [130.88.13.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id FAA09965 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 1997 05:17:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from amu5.cs.man.ac.uk by m1.cs.man.ac.uk (4.1/SMI-4.1:AL6) id AA06830; Sat, 18 Jan 97 13:17:14 GMT Received: from gort (annex1-3.mcc.ac.uk) by amu5.cs.man.ac.uk; Sat, 18 Jan 97 13:17:12 GMT Message-Id: <32E0CD21.74E905EA@cs.man.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 13:16:17 +0000 From: Dave Gilbert Organization: University of Manchester Computer Science Department X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; Linux 2.1.17 i586) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Fixed: My NIS problems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I managed to fix my NIS problems; I'd put the wrong netmask in and hence wasn't geting any broadcasts. Another symptom was some 'arplookup' errors occasionally on the console. One thing I haven't managed to get to work is netgroups; we have a netgroup representing all the machines in the department and I wanted to put it in /etc/exports but I got a complaint from mountd that 'rsuns was a bad netgroup' - which means it spotted it was a netgroup but didn't like it. We have loads of suns running SunOS which happily understand the netgroups. Under what circumstances would it do this? I wrote some code using getnetgrent and it seems to read the netgroup fine. Dave -- ----------- (Phone: 0161-275-3547) ------------------------ Man can not live - David Alan Gilbert - gilbertd@cs.man.ac.uk - G7FHJ@GB7BEV by bread alone. He ----------- (University of Manchester - AMULET Group) --H-- needs chocolate. -