Ya, I got NIS working with Mandrake 7.0.  It sure was a bitch though
because they wrote the makefile wrong.
You get that "Domain not bound" error when you do not have your NIS
database built.  You have to type /usr/lib/yp/ypinit -m
You then follow the instructions and it will attempt to build your
database.  Unless yours is different then mine, it gave me two 'Command
not found' errors while trying to build the group part.  Its because
there are two extra @ symbols in the makefile that shouldn't be there. 
After you remove them it will build correctly.  Then I had the problem
where the clients knew the server was there and that the password and
group data bases existed but it wouldn't let anyone login.  After
playing with it a bit I found that you have to set merge the shadow with
the password to 'true' in the makefile as well.  Not sure about the
groups tho.  You might have to do those too.  See the NIS howto for more
information.  I had to read it like 5 times before I finally understood
what it was saying.

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