I'm in the process of bringing up a handful of IPX boxen to be standalone YP
slave servers.

I built one up and got it doing what it needs to do, and when one of our
NetApp servers bound to it, nobody could mount anything ("permission denied").

I think I've chased the problem down to the netgroup NIS map and that
the NetBSD ypserv (libc?) doesn't have a `feature' that we are exploiting
on the SunOS/Solaris side of things.  Description follows:

If I have a netgroup file with three entries:

    foo bar baz
    bar (machine1,,) (machine2,,)
    baz (machine3,,) (machine4,,)

... all four machines appear to belong in group `foo', which makes it simple to
categorize items in the netgroup file, and have simple exports entries on the
file servers.

Is this behavior missing in NetBSD?  The manpages give no hint that this
exists.

If I can't get this going in a reasonable timeframe, I'll have to scrap the
NetBSD-running-slave-servers idea entirely.

(running 1.3.3, btw)

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