ok. thanks for the verification. sort of knew that i was starting to "bark up a tree" when it didn't compile or anything. btw: i did get some of it working (w/o fixing the error in the makefile...which is something that'll i'll try and do "make" again). like you said, is seeing the database (my user and password when you do teh "check" statement on my computers "user ....etc....etc....etc..." (ack forgot) but it just denies teh password when try to log in. Also, after i got the domain set and it was working partially, i lost contact with my ftp and httpd on the server end. is nis suppose to disable httpd/ftp when running? when i rebooted teh client into win98, it did find teh httpd and ftp sites fine. i know it's a security risk to do this type of setup. thanx. On Mon, 07 Feb 2000, you wrote: > 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. -- ------------ Sent from: Lattitude (deg): 32.7130 Longitude (deg): -117.1530 Altitude (ft): 410.0 GMT to Local (hrs): -8.0 (daylight savings enabled) ------------ Created with Linux-Mandrake 7.0! http://www.linux-mandrake.com/ Currently Beta Testing Mandrake Ver >7.0
