Re: [seul-edu] Ongoing network troubles

[Michael Viron <mviron@wsdo.sao.uwf.edu>]

> 1. How do I get the server to start ypserv and  ypbind automatically? I tried repeatedly with Linuxconf, but it still won't  start automatically. (Running RH 6.2) Is there a script or configuration file  somewhere I can edit? 
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RedHat 6.2 Linuxconf, select Control-->Control Panel-->Control Service Activity select ypbind (and ypserv) and select the "automatic" option next to startup.  I've set up RH 6.2 dozens of times--and that has always worked for me.

If that doesn't work--then it could be that although they are set to automatically come on, that they do not know which domain to serve and bind to (hence failing at startup).  If that's the case, you have to edit /etc/sysconfig/network, and set NISDOMAIN to the domain that your central server is using.

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> 2. Do you know what to customize so that as I  add new users they all have the same desktop? (It's running gnome.) It's awful  slow to add a user, startx, customize the desktop, and repeat for each user. I  looked in /etc/skel and /usr/share but don't know what to  edit.
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Put the .sawfish / .sawmill or .gnome* (depends on whether you use helixcode or regular gnome) directories under /etc/skel--which is the directory that is copied to a user's home directory when it is first created (at least through linuxconf, it is.  You do not have to edit anything, except to copy those directories in there, as far as I can re-call.

<aside>
I know all about squeezing the administration part in....I currently work full time, have 1 class, administer 4 linux boxes, and help out several organizations, both online (SEUL / OODS), and locally.

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Mike

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Michael Viron
Chief System Administrator
Web Spinners, University of West Florida

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>    Thanks,   Dave Prentice
> > prentice@instruction.com
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:      Chris Hedemark <hedemark@bops.com>
> > To: 'seul-edu@seul.org' <seul-edu@seul.org>
> > Date:      Monday, November 06, 2000 8:10 AM
> > Subject: RE: [seul-edu]      Ongoing network troubles
> >
> >     What does your /etc/exports look      like? -----Original Message-----
> > From:      Dave Prentice [mailto:dprentice@uno.edu]
> > Sent:      Sunday, November 05, 2000 10:00 PM
> > To:      seul-edu@seul.org
> > Subject: [seul-edu] Ongoing network      troubles
> >
> > >
> > >  To anybody,
> > >     Using the steps in my          previous message I now have NIS working fine in my classroom and can log          on from any machine as any user. However, it doesn't do any good. The          server still refuses to allow anyone to write to its /home directory          over the network, so NIS is useless. Nobody can even run startx because          of the refusal to allow writes.              I can't figure how to          make the server allow write access. /home is a separate partition and is          set in /etc/exports as rw. It's set on all the clients to mount as rw.          Can anybody refer me to anybody or any document that might be able to          help with this?   Thanks,                   Dave Prentice
> prentice@instruction.com