Re: [9fans] problem logging into a combined auth/cpu/fileserver

[James Chapman <james@cs.ioc.ee>]

Hi,

I guess my question wasn't very well specified so I'm having another
go. I presume the problem I previously posted was because my network
configuration was broken so now I'm asking how to set it up properly.

The wiki page "Configuring a Standalone CPU Server" gives two simple
possibilites:
1. A simple example for a combined cpu/auth server, the 192.168.1.100
machine, could be:

ipnet=mynet ip=192.168.1.0 ipmask=255.255.255.0
	auth=bouncer
	cpu=cycles
	dns=lookup
	dnsdom=9fans.net

authdom=9fans.net auth=bouncer

ip=192.168.1.100 sys=bouncer dom=bouncer.9fans.net
ip=192.168.1.101 sys=cycles dom=cycles.9fans.net
ip=192.168.1.102 sys=lookup dom=lookup.9fans.net
2. If you're not setting up a whole network and just want drawterm
access to the combined cpu and auth server you're configuring, addding
the single line

authdom=some.domain auth=cycles
to /lib/ndb/local will suffice if you also add the line

sysname=cycles
I would like something in between. I would like the configuration in 1
but without specifying the ip addresses. I want more than just
drawterm; I would like some real plan 9 terminals. I want both the
server (combined cpu/auth/fossil) and the terminals to get ip
addresses from dhcp (from my wireless router). I tried option 2 and
also this:
ipnet=mynet ip=192.168.1.0 ipmask=255.255.255.0
	auth=cycles
	cpu=cycles
	dns=192.168.1.254
	dnsdom=lan

sys=cycles dom=cycles.home.net
sys=bouncer dom=bouncer.home.het

authdom=home.net auth=cycles
with sysname=cycles/bouncer in their respective plan9.inis
But I still get the same problem as before: I can drawterm (as
hostowner or other user) and boot bouncer using the root of cycles (as
hostowner or other user). However having booted the terminal in this
way I can only cpu to bouncer if I booted as bootes (the host owner)
otherwise I get the following error message:
> "cpu: can't authenticate: (server ip): auth_proxy rpc write: bootes:
> cs: can't translate address: dns: resource does not exist"


Firstly, is what I'm trying to do possible or do cpu/auth/file servers
have to have static ips?

Secondly, can anybody suggest what I'm doing wrong? Or can you tell me
where to look to try to fix it.

Or am I barking up the wrong tree completely?

James Chapman