Cris.Fuhrman@a.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu (12/22/88)
Dear Netlanders, (*desperate sigh*) We have a set up of (6) Sun 3/50's and (4) Sun 3/60's (two of the 3/60 are servers - each with 4 client machines). Ultimately we need to have it so user fred can send mail to user shirl, no matter which machine fred is on. User shirl needs to be able to read that mail no matter which machine she is on. I read somewhere on a USENET group (comp.sys.sun?) about how to set up MAIL on a set of machines running YP for all the clients. On our configuration, a user on ONE machine is a user on ALL TEN machines. The disk space for /usr is cross mounted from one of the server machines to the other nine. The other server is basically used for disk space for the users (/usr2 & /usr3). Here's what I tried doing: On each machine, I defined the main server (the one physically /usr) as the mailhost in /etc/hosts. The (global) yp aliases file has every user (say fred) to be fred@mainserver (the mailhost). All of the machines see the same /usr/spool/mail, so that when any user logs in to any of the 10 Suns, he knows when he has mail. Here's why it's not working: Some mail shows up in the /usr/spool/mail file with an owner of "nobody". Ok. So maybe I'm totally off base in my approach. I've tried talking to our local support person in Pittsburgh, but he keeps telling me to read the tutorial. I've read all that stuff about sendmail et al., but I'm certain that the way we've got everything cross mounted is not what the instructions assume to be the proper configuration. Please send your replies to me directly as I don't have access to USENET any more and I'm NOT on this list. I've been trying to get on this list now for close to two months but to no avail. I have been sending requests to "sunsposts-request@rice.edu" without bounces or replies. (I wasn't sending from the Suns ;-) ) -Cris Fuhrman manager@a.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu (129.71.12.1)