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I just finished reconfiguring our two-level NI domain into a
three-level domain.  For a small amount of time (about 24 hours),
this entire setup worked fine.   I followed all of the instructions 
in the Admin book and avoided the problems mentioned in NextAnswers.
The setup looks like this:

/ served by cheetah

/student - served by cheetah        /faculty - served by cheetah
cub - NFS server                      panther
jaguar - print server                 stray

The problem started when I moved a couple of nfs mounts from local
mount directories on jaguar, cheetah, and cub to the mounts directory
in the / domain.  When I rebooted any of these machines, they would
come all the way up, EXCEPT that the login window wouldn't show up.
Yes, I have a mounts directory in every level of my hierarchy, so it's
not that particular problem, although I encountered it the hard way
this weekend.  Note that I can log into these machines remotely and do
everything normally.  WindowServer and Loginwindow are both running,
too.

I managed to keep one of them up (cub) and tried to change things back
to their original setup.  However, even the original (functioning!) 
configuration didn't work.  

I also had to shift the mail server from cub to cheetah, since cub was
the old Netinfo and mail server before all this happened.  Now, nobody
except for cub can get mail through to cheetah.  And that mail gets
bounced through another machine in our domain called gate.oxy.edu,
when I have made no reference to it in cub's sendmail.sharedsub.cf!!
I changed all of the mailhost entries in /machines/host to the 
appropriate machine, moved the spool directory, fixed all of the 
sendmail.cf files, exported
cheetah's spool directory to everyone else, and restarted the sendmail
process.  All of the sharedsubsidiary machines have their DR and CR
set to cheetah, the new mail server.  What is wrong with this
picture?

I have placed a call to Next Tech. Support, who directed us to USC
Tech. support, who in turn told us to screw off unless we had a
service contract.  I called Next back again, and filed a report about
the above, and am waiting for them to return my call (hopefully
soon).

Does anyone have some helpful advice to offer?

Thanks in advance,

Dale LaFountain
System Admin, Math Dept.
Occidental College


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