Problems login on (NIS)

Hi. We've set up a computers lab w/:

1) RH Linux 9 server (Samba, NIS, DNS, DHCP)
2) Dual boot (RH Linux 9/Windows XP) workstations

(Almost) everything was working ok: users could log from Windows or
Linux using the same username (Samba/Linux user creation/modification
sync enabled).

The problem now is that new users can logon under Windows (samba) but
no under Linux (NIS?).

TIA for your comments.

Jorge L. Davila-Laureano <j_davila@webmail.uprh.edu> wrote:
> Hi. We've set up a computers lab w/:
>
> 1) RH Linux 9 server (Samba, NIS, DNS, DHCP)
> 2) Dual boot (RH Linux 9/Windows XP) workstations
>
> (Almost) everything was working ok: users could log from Windows or
> Linux using the same username (Samba/Linux user creation/modification
> sync enabled).
>
> The problem now is that new users can logon under Windows (samba) but
> no under Linux (NIS?).

You need to give up much more information about your NIS setup,
including the following.

1) contents of /etc/hosts.{allow,deny}, and securenets file (somewhere
in /etc)

2) the output of the following commands.

client# rpcinfo -p <NISSERVER>
client# ypcat passwd.byname

3) the contents of /etc/nsswitch.conf for the passwd and groups entry.

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j_davila@webmail.uprh.edu (Jorge L. Davila-Laureano) wrote
news:d7918682.0404050931.71215446@posting.google.c om:
> (Almost) everything was working ok: users could log from Windows or
> Linux using the same username (Samba/Linux user creation/modification
> sync enabled).

What do you mean by sync enabled ? "unix password sync" ?

> The problem now is that new users can logon under Windows (samba) but
> no under Linux (NIS?).

If you use the "unix password sync", it means that modification on any
samba password is also applied to the unix password, nothing else.

And so the samba account (in the smbpasswd file) must be already valid. You
must use the smbpasswd command to create these new user account.

You can also synchonize the smbpasswd with a PDC (Windows or Samba). In
this case the missing account are searched in the PDC database if it failed
on the samba file.


Regards