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Re: [seul-edu] Ongoing network troubles
Chris,
I think I found the problem.
I had been mounting /home manually from the clients so that I could choose
whether to use their internal drives or the NFS drive. As an experiment I tried
making /home automount on a client at boot. It finally let me write to the NFS
drive.
I haven't had a chance to log
on from any other clients to see if it works from them. (Though it could easily
be a full time job to set up and administer Linux on the network, I have to fit
it in between teaching and trying to make this antiquated hardware work.) Even
if it's OK, there are two other questions:
1. How do I get the server to start ypserv and
ypbind automatically? I tried repeatedly with Linuxconf, but it still won't
start automatically. (Running RH 6.2) Is there a script or configuration file
somewhere I can edit?
2. Do you know what to customize so that as I
add new users they all have the same desktop? (It's running gnome.) It's awful
slow to add a user, startx, customize the desktop, and repeat for each user. I
looked in /etc/skel and /usr/share but don't know what to edit.
Thanks,
What does your /etc/exports look
like?
-----Original Message-----
From:
Dave Prentice [mailto:dprentice@uno.edu]
Sent:
Sunday, November 05, 2000 10:00 PM
To:
seul-edu@seul.org
Subject: [seul-edu] Ongoing network
troubles
To anybody,
Using the steps in my
previous message I now have NIS working fine in my classroom and can log
on from any machine as any user. However, it doesn't do any good. The
server still refuses to allow anyone to write to its /home directory
over the network, so NIS is useless. Nobody can even run startx because
of the refusal to allow writes.
I can't figure how to
make the server allow write access. /home is a separate partition and is
set in /etc/exports as rw. It's set on all the clients to mount as rw.
Can anybody refer me to anybody or any document that might be able to
help with this?
Thanks,