Solaris

I'm some what new to Unix and I recently have been thrown into a system administration role. I created this thread because I I wish to setup NIS in my lab and I thought this could be benificial to me and many others.

I am followig the Sun System Administation Guide: Naming and Directory Services. I have two freshly installed sun blade 100s with Solaris 9 and the patch cluster on an isolated network. My goal is to make one a master server and the other a client. I will post my progress regularly and also ask questions to the pros that have been doing this for so long.

Thanks,
Steve

ok here we go...

I started by setting the domain name on my server to test.com and creating the /etc/defaultdomain file. Then I created the /etc/nodename file containing the machine name unixnis.

I copied the folling files to a new directory call /nisfiles:
auto_master
auto_home
bootparams (created blank file)
ethers (created blank file)
group
hosts (added ip of client to be)
ipnodes
netgroup
netmask
networks
protocols
rpc
services
user_attr

These are the default file unless otherwise specified.

Next i copied passwd and shadow to /passfiles and then removed the line for root.

I then opened the /var/yp/makefile and changed the DIR value to /nisfiles and the PWDIR value to /passfiles.

I guess it time to attemp to build the nis maps. I run:
/usr/sbin/ypinit -m

- enter the name of the master
-say yes to stop on errors

errors coming up in next post

Ok here are the errors i get

Sep 29 12:12:02 unixnis sendmail[4291]: My unqualified host name (unixnis) unknown; sleeping for retry
Sep 29 12:18:02 unixnis sendmail [4291]: unable to qualify my own domain (unixnis) -- using short name
WARNING: local host name (unixnis) is not qualified; fix $j in config file
/var/yp/test.commail.aliases: 13 aliases, longest 16 bytes, 162 bytes total
/usr/lib/netsvc/yp/mkalias /var/yp/'domainname'/netmask.byaddr
updated aliases
make: WARNING: don't knoe how to make target '/nisfiles/publickey'
Current working dircectory /var/yp
Updated netid
/usr/sbin/makedbm /nisfiles/netmask /var/yp/'domainname'/netmask.byaddr
updated netmask
Couldnt find /nisfiles/timezone
Updated auto.master
Updated auto.home
Updated auth_attr
Updated exec_attr
Updated prof_attr
Updated user_attr
Updated audit_user
make: Warning: Target 'all' not remade because of errors
Current working directory /var/yp
*** Error Code 1
make: Fatal Error: comand failed for target 'k'
Error running makefile

Can anybod comment and give me some solutions to fixing these problems?

Thanks

Ok to get this to work I copied over the /etc/publickey file to /nisfiles and created a timezone file and copied to /nisfiles.

Once I did this i ran the ypinit anaing and it worked without a error

I joined the client system using the ypinit -c command. Before doing this i set the domainname to test.com and replaced the /etc/nsswitch.conf with nsswitch.nis.

After rebooting i tried to login and go a message that my home directory was unreachable and to login in fail safe mode.

To fix this i copied auto_home to the /nisfiles and updated the auto.home map.

This allowed me to login but then i got another error about the DT Messenging service could not be started.

To fix this I opened the /etc/dfs/dfstab on the server and added an entry for the /export/home/<username> that i was logging in with on the client.

This seemed to fix it...

Is there easier ways to administer NIS?

To create a user I was using useradd then copying that users line in /etc/passwd to my /passfiles/passwd. I also did this with the shadow. Then I copied the auto_home to /nisfiles. I updated the auto.nome map and the passwd map after that. Then in order for the user to access his home directory I had to open /etc/dfs/dfstab and add an entry for his home directory. This seems exstremely tedious and long just to add a user. Are there easier ways to do this?