Thanks to all who responded. I got a lot of tips. As it turned out it was
the passwords that was the problem. I had generated passwords with
Uppercase letters, lowercase letters and numbers. When I changed them to
only lowercase and numbers all worked fine.
Thanks to:
Jan van den Berg
Jay Leafey
Jeff Borah
Paul Gavazzi
Tom Webster
Andrew Leahy
Take care
Neta
At 16:08 1999-08-26 +0200, you wrote:
>Hello managers
>
>I could really use some help now. I can't make the logins work in Win95
>
>We have som education for the university. Our server i a 2100 with DU 4.0E.
>We use NIS.
>
>The students log in from Win95 using SAMBA. A new class will start Monday
>and they will need usernames and passwords. I have added new users before
>without any problems. (I use System Setup... account manager... add. Then I
>copy /etc/passwd to /var/yp/src/passwd. After that I do "make passwd" and
>everything usually goes fine.)
>
>This time I had to add a new group for this new class. This is what I did:
>
>* In the account manager I added the group.
>
>* I copied /etc/group to /var/yp/src/group
>
>* I did "make group"
>
>* Then I added a user the way I described above.
>
>After this I can't login as this new user from Win95. But there is no
>problem to login via telnet.
>
>Can anyone see what I am missing here?
>
>Any help will be VERY appreciated
>
>Thank you! Neta Hedberg
>
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Neta Hedberg SIGIT AB
Tel 0980-70028
neta.hedberg_at_sigit.se
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Received on Fri Aug 27 1999 - 07:58:36 NZST