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From: bms@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Bruce Schlobohm)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: news over NFS/RFS
Message-ID: <592@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Date: 23 Mar 89 00:44:18 GMT
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Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA
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I'm sure this problem has been solved before, but I don't recall seeing
the solution...

I've just recently tried to use a distributed file-system (RFS/NFS,
it shouldn't matter which I use) for my /usr/spool/news and /usr/lib/news
filesystems.  The newsreader and poster programs are executed on the
client side.  The newsreaders work just fine, but posting news fails.

The error in the errlog is:
	inews: Cannot find my name 'client' in /usr/lib/news/sys

('client'  is the name (uname -n) of the client machine.)
/usr/lib/news/sys doesn't have the name 'client', as client isn't a newsfeed.
The only machines listed are the names of the server and it's newsfeed.

If it matters this is on a SVr3.1 based machine.

How do I use a distributed file system to handle this situation?
Is GENERICFROM the answer?  Do I need to write a postnews-style front-end
that passes the message to the server machine for remote execution?

Any help in this area would be appreciated.
As this might be a problem that others have struggled with, posted
replies might be best, however I'll also summarize mailed replies.

-- 
Bruce Schlobohm
bms@Convergent.COM -or- {pyramid,sri-unix,pacbell}!ctnews!bms