rsh and NIM Load Problems w/ Nameserver

[RichieK515]

Hello all,

I am currently having problems with loading a client via NIM, using a 5.1 NIM server (having the latest release 4/2002).

My first question is: why does the server respond with
rshd: 0826-813 Permission is denied.
after executing the command "rsh client hostname" when the nameserver is defined and replies with the correct hostname when the nameserver is not defined.
* For both cases, the .rhosts and /etc/hosts files have the correct contents to allow the server to gain root priveleges.

My second question is: after rsh returns the correct hostname, proving that the server has root priveleges, I tried to do a NIM load onto the client. I allocated the correct resources and performed a bos_inst. Why do I end up with the following error:
0042-001 nim: processing error encountered on "master":
0042-001 m_bos_inst: processing error encountered on "master":
0042-193 m_nnc_setup: clienthas no entry for server in .r
hosts or cannot resolve host id
* Without a nameserver defined, the whole process works perfectly fine.

Did anyone else run into a similar/same problem as I did? Will I have to remove the nameserver before doing a NIM load, using AIX 5.1? (The nameserver does not effect the NIM loads I do under 4.3.3 at all) Am I required to use a fully qualified hostname (ie. client.domain.com)? If anyone has any solutions, please help. Thanks a lot...

Richie

 

[AIX5L]

Hi

What is your entry in /etc/netsvc.conf ?
What is set with the NSORDER Variable ?

 

[Yegolev]

We use DNS and just make sure that rsh works before starting, using just rhost file. The way I test is to do `rsh hostname ls` as root. Might have to define entries for both shortnames and fully-qualified names in /.rhosts file. You might want to make sure your DNS is doing both forward and reverse lookup.

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