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- From: rick@rgb.com (Rick Davis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: PC-NFS error message on Sun... help?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.212922.12912@rgb.com>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 21:29:22 GMT
- References: <1992Sep5.060634.14371@news.columbia.edu>
- Organization: RGB Spectrum
- Lines: 30
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- jel8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Jason E Levine) writes:
-
- >I am having a problem with PC-NFS and a Sun 3/60. The problem is not
- >critical; it is just plain annoying.
-
- >I upgraded three IBM PS/2 Model 70-A21's from PC-NFS 3.0.1 to PC-NFS 4.0
- >two days ago. Now, whenever one of them logs into the Sun, the console
- >of the Sun displays an error message similar (but not exactly like) to the
- >following:
-
- >[date] [time] pcnfsd[100]: rpc.pcnfsd: fail on yp_bind
-
- >Then, after a few minutes, the Sun console will say:
-
- >last error repeated [x] times (the number changes)
-
- Yea, you have to recompile rpc.pcnfsd without the default -DUSE_YP
- in the makefile. The problem is that Sun assumes you are using
- NIS and automounter. When USE_YP is undefined, rpc.pcnfs just
- uses the /etc/passwd and /etc/host files.
-
- Rick Davis
- rick@rgb.com
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