Re: NetReg: Host entry not added in dhcpd.conf

New Message Reply Date view Thread view Subject view Author view Attachment view

From: Robert Lowe (robert.h.lowe@lawrence.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 31 2002 - 16:01:49 CST

Jennifer Mehl wrote:

A quick guess would be file permissions... the web server probably runs
as 'nobody', while the files are owned by someone else?

-Robert

> Hi All,
>
> I'm just getting started with ISC DHCP and NetReg, and I've almost got
> everything working (*phew*).
>
> I've got NetReg set up to authenticate to our LDAP server (Netscape Dir
> Server 4.15). The authentication seems to be working properly-- if I
> put in a bogus password I get an error message back.
>
> However, if I enter my correct password, it appears to register my MAC
> address and then tells me to restart my machine. After a restart, I
> still have the same temporary lease I had before. Upon researching the
> dhcpd.conf and dhcpd.conf.new file I noticed that there is no host
> entry with my LDAP uid and MAC address as expected. The files have not
> been modified at all by the script.
>
> Does anyone have any advice on where I can look for the cause of this
> problem?
>
> thanks, and Happy New Year!
> Jennifer
>
> ---
> Jennifer Mehl
> Network Engineer, IT - Network Services
> Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (MIT)
> 5 Cambridge Center
> Cambridge MA 02142
>
> 617.258.8930 voice
> 617.258.5121 fax
>
> mehl@wi.mit.edu
>
> **********************************************************************
> To unsubscribe from this list, send an e-mail message to
> majordomo@southwestern.edu containing a single line with the words:
> unsubscribe netreg
> Send requests for assistance to: owner-netreg@southwestern.edu
> **********************************************************************
**********************************************************************
To unsubscribe from this list, send an e-mail message to
majordomo@southwestern.edu containing a single line with the words:
unsubscribe netreg
Send requests for assistance to: owner-netreg@southwestern.edu
**********************************************************************

New Message Reply Date view Thread view Subject view Author view Attachment view

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Thu Aug 12 2004 - 12:01:38 CDT