In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stuart Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > >I have a network of several debian 2.0 machines. One of these >acts as the NIS master and each machine exports disks to all >the others. Currently I am using an NIS distributed netgroup >entry in /etc/exports to indicate which hosts are allowed to >mount. (eg. /data/a1 @mynetgroup(rw,no_root_squash) > >The problem is that when I reboot the NIS master, the mountd's >on the other machines stop exporting their drives to the master. >If I "kill -HUP" the mountd it re-evaluates /etc/exports and >all is well again.
This is strange, it should find the NIS master after a reboot and just continue. Have you considered setting up a NIS slave server to see if it solves the problems? Besides, it's always a good idea to run a slave server just in case. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]