In article <199903312146.PAA27969@warthog.com> Rob Windsor <windsor@warthog.com> writes:
>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.
>

No, this works... If you compile and run the netgroup program from current
you can verify that... It could be an issue with case sensitivity or FQDN
names.

christos