dph@astro.chem.psu.edu (David P. Huenemoerder) (12/16/88)
We have a single Sun 386i which we would like to have connected to the university's ethernet and internet backbone. We don't want to serve anyone. Apparently, the 386i MUST run yellow-pages. As best as I could determine, the system must be configured as a master server with no clients. Is this correct? It works that way, but is confusing, since we had to become our own domain, rather than a node on the university's domain. We would be perfectly happy if we could be a stand-alone with a connection to the net for ftp/telnet/rlogin capability. Our primary needs for the net are mail and local file transfers, but we don't really need NFS (maybe eventually, but not for a long time). A related question: as a master server with no clients, why doesn't SNAP work? Even root cannot do anything but backup and restore. I gave myself permissions in ypgroup which enabled the SNAP selections for everything else, but they don't work reliably. User accounts cannot be set up from scratch. Existing accounts can be modified. David Huenemoerder Penn State Det. of Astronomy internet: dph@astro.psu.edu (128.118.30.150)