group = rpc?

[Mark Komarinski]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 04:33:23PM -0500, Robert Casey wrote:
> Sorry if this is repetitive but for the life of me I can't seem to get 
> our Red Hat Linux boxes to properly act as NIS clients. The most recent 
> problem is my files show up with group ownership as rpc. prior to this 
> the automounting was flaky so we copied the auto_ files from the NIS 
> server, which is a Sun box running Solaris 2.7 and the auto_mounting 
> works now. The strange thing about this rpc group thing is when I type 
> ypcat group it does show my group which is grp32. The Red Hat systems 
> are running 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3 but all have this problem. Is there a 
> web-site that tells how to set up Red Hat Linux boxes as NIS clients to 
> a Sun NIS server?

You probably have a conflict between your local /etc/group file and
the groupid and userid as given by NIS.

BTW, there should be no need to copy files from the NIS server to
the clients.  That's why you're using NIS in the first place.  You
need to remove /etc/auto.master and the default NIS map for the
automounter is (guess what) auto.master.  If the map is something else,
you can change it in /etc/init.d/autofs.

I'm using autofs and NIS on 7.3 and 8.0 (along with Debian) boxes
with an SGI server.

-Mark
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