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Hi, I want to enable MD5 password authentication (PAM )for nis on solaris 8? On solaris 9 it is working fine. can anybody suggest any third party pam module for this?

HI all We recently have purchased HP 3400cl and 6400cl switches. I have stacked these. I want to create identical vlans on these switches and use 6400cl as L3 and 3400cl as l2(6400cl should do inter vlan routing for stack) as per HP's documents we can have multiple vlans and stacking should be...

Hi all, I recently have done subnetting in our networks and created four separate subnets of 24bit using Extreme 400-24t L3 switch. All the desktops and one server is there in one network connected through stacked dell 3348 switches. I am oberving one strange problem. All the switches in this...

I addition to this, I am using Debian 2.4.19 as NIS server.

Hi all, I am getting this error when I getting the error "Can't find master for map "passwd". Reason: No such map in server's domain" when I tried to change password on NIS server with $ yppasswd nickname file /var/yp/nicknames does not exist.Can't find master for map "passwd". Reason: No...

There is lot much traffic going on between server of arp request. Anyway all the servers are 24x7 days up and ARP request is sent just for checking availability of the other machine, isn't it? I think this traffic can be decreased to allow other one to gothrough. I found the gc_stale_time. But...

Hi friends, I am using Debian 2.4.18. I want to increase the ARP time out for all the servers. Is it feasible to increase the timeout value from default to 1 or 2 Hr. Can any body help me? Amit

Hi friends, I am trying to install Debian with 2.4.4 kernel. I have a dell Power edge 1750 with LSI ultra 320 SCSI controller(53c1030). I tried to install the drivers for that controller from ftp.lsil.com/pub/linux-megaraid/drivers. I tried all the driver there. But i can't get the patch for...

Hi all, I am using Debian 2.4.19. We have NIS to manage all the users. I am facing problem with few newly created users.. After logging i am getting message No Directory! logging in with HOME=/ My auto.master is /home /etc/auto.home In /etc/auto.home the mount points for all users has...

Hi all, I made a mistake in checking the NIC drivers. Actually I have 4 NIC's. of two differnt make. THe order of NIC's got reversed. It was amazzing ... why it was working previosly i still couldn't find out. After changing the order of modules in /etc/modules for NIC's It is working fine....

Hi all, I am using Debian 2.4.4 on 7 Dell servers .. we are using NIS server on one of the server. all servers are connected to 3com switch Previosly before shifting that servers all were working fine... After shifting.. three of them are not in network.. I have checked all that neccessary...

1) create one directory under /mnt Like winc and list the partions with fdisk -l notedown the windows partition and use following command mount -t vfat /dev/hda2 /mnt/winc [Considering /dev/hda2 is your windows partion] 2) Have you confogured Samba server.? SAMBA server can do this for u.

If any user delete a file, syslog should create a log of ther username time and date of deletion. And if any kernel.crit message generated that should mail me at something@something.com How could i do this? I have gone through syslog.conf and syslogd but could not gone through it. Any good...

r u login with anonymous user? check out for the permissions of the /pub directory...

For JeffPr All this should be done by booting the macine in Linux edit that file and add the partion on which your XP is installed. and run grub-install /dev/hda This is just for adding the XP in your grub loader. I said add the partition on which xp is install... this should be done in...