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users would not even be able to log in. Machines in the network managed<br />

by a broken name server would not be able to “see” each other and communicate.<br />

NTP (Time Service)<br />

A malfunctioning or completely broken NTP service could affect Kerberos<br />

authentication and X server functionality.<br />

NFS (File Service)<br />

If any application needed data stored in an NFS mounted directory, it would<br />

not be able to start up or function properly if this service was down or misconfigured.<br />

In a worst case scenario, a user's personal desktop configuration<br />

would not come up if his home directory containing his .gconf or .kde<br />

subdirectories could not be found due to an outage <strong>of</strong> the NFS server.<br />

Samba (File Service)<br />

If any application needed data stored in a directory on a Samba server, it<br />

would not be able to start or function properly if this service was down.<br />

NIS (User Management)<br />

If your <strong>SUSE</strong> Linux system relied on a NIS server to provide the user data,<br />

users would not be able to log in to this machine if the NIS service was down.<br />

LDAP (User Management)<br />

If your <strong>SUSE</strong> Linux system relied on an LDAP server to provide the user<br />

data, users would not be able to log in to this machine if the LDAP service<br />

was down.<br />

Kerberos (Authentication)<br />

Authentication would not work and login to any machine would fail.<br />

CUPS (Network Printing)<br />

Users would not be able to print.<br />

4 Check whether the network servers are running and whether your network setup<br />

allows you to establish a connection:<br />

IMPORTANT<br />

The debugging procedure described below only applies to a simple network<br />

server/client setup that does not involve any internal routing. We<br />

Common Problems and Their Solutions 233

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