Net name and pcnfs

2007-12-25 8:12:00

Well.. thanks again! The list gave me a lot of insights.. but...

I got the solution ( I think ) from a Sun engineer...

My authentication server has a name of greater than 16 bytes...

so... the password authentication halts even before it gets

out of the PC and back onto the net. There is a patch for

this problem coming to me from the Sun people themselves. So

I'll post the patch details

MAny thanks to

mikep!mikep@eng.dowjones.com (Mike Palma)

for calling me with details....

and

Geert Jan de Groot <geertj@ica.philips.nl>

for trying to call me with details

And Many thanks to

"Ron Werther" <RONW@hera.ice.nl>

Brian Safford <bsaffo01@cad.gmeds.com>

Christian.Hnilica@alcatel.co.at (Christian Hnilica)

Geert Jan de Groot <geertj@ica.philips.nl>

Geoff Halprin <Geoff.Halprin@fulcrum.oz.au>

Jason.Hargis@PII.COM (Jason Hargis)

Joe P. DeCello <jpd@cad1.cl.msu.edu>

Kandi Kirk <kk@ccrwest.org>

Mr T Crummey (DIJ) <tom@sees.bangor.ac.uk>

Perry_Hutchison.Portland@xerox.com

andrico@parcplace.com (Liesl Andrico)

bert@spike.penril.com (Bert Robbins)

bmecca@wea.com (Buddy Mecca)

caxwgk@pki-nbg.philips.de (Wolfgang Kuehnel )

chughey@tango.cos.com (Carl Hughey)

danny@ews7.dseg.ti.com

eckhard@ts.go.dlr.de (Eckhard Rueggeberg)

esri!arian!houman@uunet.UU.NET (Houman Safai @ 1579)

fireball!poage@ucdavis.edu (Tom Poage)

gary@mstr.hgc.edu (Gary Trail)

gwolsk@sei.com (Guntram Wolski)

hkatz@nucmed.NYU.EDU (Henry Katz)

hoogs@alc.com (Tim Hoogasian)

kene@indy500.Central.Sun.COM (Ken Erickson (SSE -Indiana Office))

macphed@dvinci.usask.ca (Ian MacPhedran)

mike_titus <mike@sleepy.haystack.edu>

nagel@post.inf-wiss.ivp.uni-konstanz.de

pingel@oieng.mke.ab.com (Bob Pingel (4439))

pjw@sma.usna.navy.MIL (Peter J. Welcher -- math FACULTY <pjw@sma.usna.navy.MIL>)

poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)

rnt@math.ias.edu (Robert N. Thompson)

schneide@scubed.scubed.com (Steve Schneider)

stern@sunne.East.Sun.COM (Hal Stern - NE Area Systems Engineer)

strombrg@hydra.acs.uci.edu

ups!upstage!glenn@fourx.Aus.Sun.COM (Glenn Satchell - Uniq Professional Services)

uusr152!frank@uu2.psi.com (Frank DeBolt)

vasey@issi.com

Original posting

> My network of Sparcs and PC's has always had a little glich. When the

> user turns on their pc runing any of the versions of PCNFS that we

> have here, they are prompted for user name and password. Now I have

> never been able to make this work. It wasn't a serious problem until

> I installed PC-NFS lifeline. Now my users need to log in as a user

> and not nobody, so they can read their mail! I've gone through the

> PCNFS manuals over and over... They indicate that I need to do

> a NET NISDOMAIN and a NET NISSET command initially.... This I in fact

> do. But there doesn't seem to be anything else to do. Now I am not

> sure if there is something on the server side that needs doing.

> Well, the server is a Sun4 4/370 running 4.1.1. The version of PCNFS

> is 3.5 in this case. And the error I get is the user authentication

> one... where the username and password are asked for, but are never

> accepted.

Susan KJ Thielen Application Programmer, System Manager

Robarts Research Institute Phone: (519) 663-3833

PO Box 5015, 100 Perth Drive Fax: (519) 663-3789

London, ON N6A 5K8 E-mail: thielen@irus.rri.uwo.ca

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