ted@arsocomvax.socom.mil (Ted Nolan) (04/11/91)
I tried installing PC-NFS 3.5 yesterday on one of our Zenith Z248s (AT class).
Things seemed to go pretty well, until it came time to boot.
In my network.bat file I have
net nisdomain bragg
net start rdr
When I run this, the "net start" returns the message:
NFS029W: Unable to obtain the name of the NIS server
followed by a message to the effect that it can't find a name for the PC either.
(Something like:
net: Unable to get name for 137.29.92.61
ie, not an "NFS" prefixed error message)
The book indicates that the NFS message means that a yp server has responded,
but that there is probably a problem with the hosts.byaddr map that prevents it
from being looked up. This doesn't seem to be true in this case, my maps are
fine.
If I put my YP server, and the pc in my \nfs\hosts file, then things work fine
with the above network.bat. However, this sort of negates the advantage of
using RARP.
Any suggestions?
Ted Nolan
ted@usasoc.soc.mil
PS: A minor peeve, the manual page for the "net use" command explains only
the format \\server\drive and \\server\printer for unix mounts, but
nfsconf uses a different format when it creates drives.bat