Re: Solaris NIS server and Linux NFS server

I figured this out. Basically the reverse DNS queries should match
what is listed in the netgroup map.

On 8/22/06, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a Solaris 9 NIS server and Linux (kernel 2.6.9) NFS server. I
> require access control on which machines can access what shares on the
> linux NFS server. Hence i am using netgroups in /etc/exports. Also i
> have set up hosts.allow and hosts.deny to have access control over
> services like portmap, mountd, statd etc. From the NFS server i can
> query netgroups NIS map properly. However when a legitimate request
> come from a client computer to the Linux server, the server denies it.
> If i use the IP address/Hostname of the client rather than netgroup in
> the /etc/exports and /etc/hosts.allow, everythings seems to work well.
>
> Has anybody faced this problem. Where am i going wrong? Any replies
> would be highly appreciated.
>
> TIA
>
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