auto.direct nismap mod failure

[Ed Sanborn]

Hi folks,

I am using Win2003R2 with Identity Management for Unix. I have
a non-standard map, auto.direct. There are a few entries. Here's the last
few lines:

/tx2na01b/vol0/unix tx2na01b:/vol/vol0/unix
tx2na01a/vol0/unix tx2na01a:/vol/vol0/unix
/ws/src kirk:/mnt/dsk2/ReleaseWS

Notice the 2nd entry? I mistakenly left off the forward slash. So I tried
to fix it and this is what I got:

C:\Documents and Settings>nismap mod -a genband -k "tx2na01a/vol0/unix" -e
"/tx2na01a/vol0/unix" auto.direct
Activity = Updating map = 'auto.direct'

FAILURE
updating NIS entries in AD

Any idea why this would happen? Anyway I can get more diagnostic errors?

Thanks,

Ed

[Ashish]

Based on my testing, it seems if the key field contains slashes (/) -
the mod operation doesn't work. I think this character is not handled
well in the code.

I think you should delete this entry using ADSIEdit and recreate it
correctly - I believe you can locate this under
DefaultMigrationContainer30 > <domain> > auto.home

- Ashish