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From: johnm@bowen.cc.utas.edu.au (John B. Miezitis)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: PC-NFS and NIS problem. Any ideas please.
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Date: 30 Jun 91 23:47:58 GMT
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Hi,

	I have recently upgraded to PC-NFS 3.5 and have got everything
	working without NIS. If I enable NIS then the "net name *"
	command fails with the following message -

	NFS005F : Authentication failure.

	The manual indicates that this message occurs if the pcnfsd
	rejects the user name and password. But the the pcnfsd has not
	been queried, as explained below.

	If I continue to mount drives and printers everything works as
	expected for an anonymous user. The NIS configuration works
	fine because I can telnet by name to hosts not in the
	\nfs\hosts file.

	Running rpc.pcnfsd with variable buggit set to 1 and watching
	any traffic to the port the daemon is running on shows *NO*
	traffic from the PC. There is some traffic to ypserv and ypbind
	but not much.

	How does PC-NFS authenticate users if it doesn't use the pcnfsd
	is trying to use NIS to do the authentication?

	Thanks for any and all advice.

	Cheers.
	--JohnM
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John B Miezitis University of Tasmania Computing Centre.
email: John.Miezitis@cc.utas.edu.au | Belgium man Belgium!!! - Z. Beeblebrox
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