*Sorry for my confusing English. I should have been more specific and clear. * * * *Corresponding to each user, there is a home directory in the Server. So when the user gives his login and password credentials at the client, this home directory from the server is mounted onto a directory in the client. (We use the network file system and just add a line in fstab to mount the directory from the server onto a directory at the client)** * *Concerning firewall, i really don't know how to check it or configure it although i read something about it. I will try out ssh login.*
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jesús M. Navarro <jesus.nava...@undominio.net> Date: 2009/8/18 Subject: Re: NIS woes.. Ubuntu nis client doesn't ping Debian nis Server To: raman narasimhan <rams...@gmail.com> Hi again, raman: On Tuesday 18 August 2009 04:06:27 you wrote: > *by login i mean that we can login to the Server from a client. Just like > in Windows. Each client has his own home directory. From the client system, > when it provides that, it can logon to the SERVER.** Sorry but I must say it doesn't make too much sense to me. You can log into Windows by means of the local graphic console (I know that's not the case), opening a VNC/RDP session, by telnet... you can even access protected resources from a server without login (i.e.: mounting a protected shared resource)... Each client has his own home directory... you mean each user, don't you? "From the client system, when it provides that" What? the client system provides the user's home directory? "...it can logon to the server" What? The client system can logon to the server, or is it the user from the client system? Can you try something simpler like opening an ssh session from an Ubuntu client system to the server using some user's credentials? Open a console and type: ssh u...@server (where "user" is some user you know that can login from a Debian client -whatever "login" means to you, and "server" is the name or, better yet the IP address, of the server). If everything goes OK you will be propmted for the user's password and will start a session on that user's home path. > * > *diabling ipv6* > *http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/409*< http://www.debian-admin >istration.org/articles/409> You see on the comments to that article that such procedure doesn't always work. How did you test that IPv6 was in fact disabled? Did you have a look at the Ubuntu clients' firewall? -- RAMAN N
