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I have four linux systems with various distros (enigma, cooker, potato,
snag)

Here's my situation...

I would like one system to serve as more or less a central server for the
other three.  I would ultimately like to host all local network services
from this system, including nfs and user authentication.  Having multiple
boxen on my net, centralization is of the essence since I want access to
my data wherever I happen to be as does the wife.  Plus it's a great
learning project :-)

I have tried the walk-through at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/
to try and get the nfs services up and running on the "server" (snag), no
go. Everything goes through, modified all required config and access
files, but the following happens when I try to launch rpc.nfsd --

# /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd
nfssvc: Function not implemented

I have no idea what the hell this means.  All the other ancillary daemons
are running (portmapper, mountd, rquotad and status) according to rpcinfo
-p output.  Any ideas on this one?  Google searches yield pretty
unspecific info, mostly others with similar problems, but no real fixes as
of yet, though I will keep looking.

Also, any idea where I should begin looking for central user
authentication services?  Is this the NIS I read about somewhere?  Sorry
for all the newbie probes, but I really appreciate the help!

Thanks!  :-)

[crossposted to C.O.L.A., C.O.L.N.)

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Quote:> I have four linux systems with various distros (enigma, cooker, potato,
> snag)

> Here's my situation...

> I would like one system to serve as more or less a central server for the
> other three.  I would ultimately like to host all local network services
> from this system, including nfs and user authentication.  Having multiple
> boxen on my net, centralization is of the essence since I want access to
> my data wherever I happen to be as does the wife.  Plus it's a great
> learning project :-)

> I have tried the walk-through at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/
> to try and get the nfs services up and running on the "server" (snag), no
> go. Everything goes through, modified all required config and access
> files, but the following happens when I try to launch rpc.nfsd --

> # /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd
> nfssvc: Function not implemented

> I have no idea what the hell this means.  All the other ancillary daemons
> are running (portmapper, mountd, rquotad and status) according to rpcinfo
> -p output.  Any ideas on this one?  Google searches yield pretty
> unspecific info, mostly others with similar problems, but no real fixes as
> of yet, though I will keep looking.

I confess to having done it the easy way: I used the
easy setups that the distributions provided.  Just
"service nfsd start" with the right entries in /etc/exports
and it's done.

Quote:> Also, any idea where I should begin looking for central user
> authentication services?  Is this the NIS I read about somewhere?  Sorry
> for all the newbie probes, but I really appreciate the help!

That's NIS all right.  A pretty good book (if a bit of overkill
for a relatively minor bit of system administration) is O'Reilly's
"Managing NFS and NIS"  Again, you do minor surgery on
/etc/ypbind.conf, a wee bit of a tweak on the makefile in
/var/yp and then start ypbind and do a make.

You really should also use autofs, since it helps keep
you from having problems when the server shuts down.

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Quote:

>Also, any idea where I should begin looking for central user
>authentication services?  Is this the NIS I read about somewhere?  Sorry
>for all the newbie probes, but I really appreciate the help!

Yes, NIS does central authentication for you.  You can use it in
conjunction with the auto-mounter to mount nfs exported home directories
for example.

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Stay away from NIS. Proceed directly to LDAP, if at all possible. Even Sun
is planninig on dumping NIS. LDAP can be fairly used to manage Windows and
Mac authentication as well: integrating NIS to Windows authentication simply
doesn't work, and cannot, because the password encryption techniques are
entirely distinct.