Brian Schramm wrote: > > Can you give me an idea on how to do that by nis? Maybe that would be better > anyways. Sure, it's really quite simple on a pure Linux network but I have no idea how well Windows will play with the other boxen. On my net I've got one server running Dead Rat 7.1 (seawolf), lots of little Debian boxen running stable (they're power pc's), and my workstation which is running testing (i386).
The first thing I did was to set up the server giving all of the users on the network accounts on that box. I then set up NIS. The red hat box has the NIS server software on it and all the others have the NIS client stuff (The NIS howto has a good explanation of how to set this up and there's a section in the Network Administrators Guide that you'll want to read too). Two things: I think I recall reading that a recent upgrade of libc broke NIS so check what version you're running (stable is probably the best thing to put on the server) and you'll want to disable shadow passwords. NIS broadcasts the password database to anyone who asks for it so you loose the security that shadow password gives you and it doesn't work with all libc's out there (though I've never had a problem). Also, if shadow password is disabled for all of the user accounts you can still put the root password in there and keep it secure. Then set up NFS. On the clients I add a line in the fstab so that they mount /home on bootup: northbridge:/home /home nfs rw,user 0 0 And make sure that all of the clients are in the exports file on the server so that they can mount the nfs shares. That's it. Because you're using NIS the client mounting the NFS share is the owner of that share so there's no need to mess around with permisions and stuff. HTH, Andy The nfs client that I am using on Windows has that as a choice. > > Brian > > Andrew D Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Brian Schramm wrote: > > > > > > Has anyone gotten the pcnfsd system to work? I am trying to share a nfs > mount > > > with windows (samba will not work in this case) and am haveing trouble > with > > > pcnfsd. It will not authorize the users. > > > > > > > > I've never used pcnfsd but even the regular old nfsd is picky about what > > users can access an nfs file. I use nis with nfs to avoid user > > authorization problems. > > > > I bet Windows doesn't do NIS, hugh? Maybe a program like Hummingbird > > would get you around this problem? > > > > sory I couldn't be more helpful, > > Andy > > > > -- > Brian Schramm > http://www.linuxexpert.org ICQ 104442754 AIM schrammbrian > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Andrew D. Dixon Software Engineer Seranao Networks 978-8973434 x231
