Hi--

I decided to try to set up my network via nfs. We have 4 users and I want to switch to a linux desktop. The server we have is running Red Hat 9.0 and has been working well for a couple of years running samba.

As I am setting this up, I cannot get the workstations to see the shares on the server with the correct permissions. I suspect the problems I have are that the userids and groupids on the server and the client machines are not in sync.

So after much tribulation I managed to install ypserv on the server (which is the red hat 9.0 machine).

Now I cannot get ypserv started.

I have portmap running on the server and have done--
rpcinfo -u localhost ypserv
/etc/init.d/ypserv start
service ypserv start

but service ypserv status reports that ypserv is stopped. ypserv -d hangs.

I have not found any log files that mention ypserv, so I have no clue what is the problem here.

What should I do next, please?

Thanks!

Would the start command be startsrc -s ypserv?

You might check for the log file in /var/yp/ and the file name ypserv.log

brian_lad--

Thanks for the quick reply.

My apologies for my slow reply to you--some plumbing leaks and other things I had to fix right away.

Well today service ypserv start worked, so I have it up and running on the server.

locate ypserv |grep log produced nothing, and there is no /var/yp directory.

So it looks like this issue is solved. There are a couple others now, but I will start another thread on that.

Thanks, brian_lad!