On Fri, 17 May 2002, Jason Pfingstmann wrote:
We run SuSE 7.3 on the server and have been having problems connecting with NFS and NIS. During boot the system will not find the NIS server and will time out trying to connect to the NFS shares. It seems that it [...]
Try the troubleshooting section of the NFS howto: http://nfs.sourceforge.net/ There's also a NIS howto: http://www.linux-nis.org/
From /etc/fstab on client: --The bg for options was just a test, normally its set to defaults and I tried setting 0 0 to 500 100 (just uid and the users group)
Don't confuse fs_freq and fs_passno with uid and gid. See man fstab. But that is not related to your main problem.
192.168.0.1:/home /home nfs bg 0 0 192.168.0.1:/shares/Public /shares nfs bg 0 0
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