NIS homedir not working?
Douglas VanLeuven
roamdad at ibm.net
Thu Jun 17 21:03:59 GMT 1999
on a linux system
export LDFLAGS="-lnsl"
./configure --with-automount
Andy Smith wrote:
> Just attempted to upgrade a fairly extensive network of suns running
> solaris 2.5.1 from a cvs version dated june last year to the current
> cvs.
>
> Most of the functionality was tested offline so I was reasonably
> confident that everything would be a drop in replacement, but I've got
> caught out because the PDC in the production network is not the home
> directory server, and I had been using NIS Homedir=true in smbd.conf
> to load home shares from the autohome map. At first sight, this does
> not appear to be honoured on 2.1.0-prealpha, no matter what entry in
> autohome, home shares were looked for on the logon server, for most
> users at our place, this is invalid. I have backed out the upgrade
> now, so the panic is over, but I was so looking forward to the
> domain group and rpcclient stuff..
>
> I haven't had chance yet to check the configure script, but can anyone recall
> whether default inclusion for support for this feature has been changed?
>
> Thanks
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