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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!oleane!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!surfnet.nl!news.unisource.nl!xs4all!xs2.xs4all.nl!thomas From: <thomas@xs2.xs4all.nl> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: RPC errors Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 13:17:04 +0200 Organization: XS4ALL, networking for the masses Lines: 35 Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.93.960615125010.15636C-100000@xs2.xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: xs2.xs4all.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-XS4ALL-Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 13:17:11 MET DST Greetings, I have a problem with NIS -- no, i installed the DES package :-) I'm running a NIS server on a SUN Sparcstation 1+, and several clients on several machines (SUNs) and they all work fine - except my recently installed FreeBSD machine. NIS works about half the time there - roughly ever second 'finger <NIS-user>' gives me a 'no such user' message. Also roughly half the time i get an error-message: yp_next: clnt_call: RPC: Can't decode result The errors and failures don't seem to have any relation, by the way, but this could be a flaw (*duck*) in FreeBSD's stderr handling, maybe ? I also noticed an odd quirk in NFS (which i have running but haven't really used yet) -- I automount the home disk from the SUN, and every few times i type 'ls' in the 'home' directory, it nog only gives me a listing of all 111 users' homedirs, but also of their contents - like ls -R. This has never happened in any other mounted directory, nor when i piped ls to more for instance. The SUN runs SunOS 4.1.3, the PC FreeBSD from the 2.2-960501-SNAP distribution, with only DES extra -- Does anyone know this problem, or a possible solution ? Or should i just forget about FreeBSD, and take Linux instead ? (I need to use FreeBSD because linux doesn't have support for the Compaq machines we are obliged to use. But assides from this little problem (And the DES incompatibility) i'm quite pleased with FreeBSD) Thanx in advance, Thomas.