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8.2 Client Password Expiration
If the RIS server is using C2 security and the RIS password has been set
to allow expiration, it is possible for the RIS clients to be denied service. If
the RIS client receives a message similar to the following, the RIS password
on the server probably has expired:
Cannot find the name for client using bin/getname. Check with the system
manager of your RIS server
To fix this problem, see Section 3.6.
8.3 Root File System Mounting
RIS uses NFS to mount the root (/) file system on the client when booting the
client from the RIS server. If you see a message on the RIS client indicating
that the root file system cannot be mounted, use the ps -aef | grep
mountd command line to see if the NFS mount daemon mountd is running
on the server. If mountd is running, you see output similar to the following
#
ps -aef | grep mountd
root 308 1 0.0 17:24:28 ?? 0:00.02 /usr/sbin/mountd -i -n -n
root 3154 1053 0.0 12:52:55 ttyp3 0:00.00 grep mountd
#
If the mountd daemon is not running, use the SysMan Menu to restart
the NFS daemons. If you are running an earlier version of the operating
system, use the nfssetup command. See sysman
(8) and nfssetup
(8) for
more information.
The installation media is mounted as the root file system for both CD-ROM
and RIS installations, so it is important that the installation media is
mounted locally on the server. Due to NFS limitations, RIS cannot provide
client access to files that are mounted remotely from another system. The
distribution media or extracted RIS area must be available through a local
mount point on the RIS server.
8.4 RIS Client Registration
Problems with RIS client registration that are discussed in this section
include the following topics:
• No prompt for client hardware address (Section 8.4.1)
• Duplicate client hardware addresses (Section 8.4.2)
• Cloned client registration (Section 8.4.3)
• Client registered on multiple RIS servers (Section 8.4.4)
• Client not in RIS database (Section 8.4.5)
8–2 Troubleshooting RIS