check that your /etc/nsswitch.conf is correct, there should be a line, something like: passwd: files nis
(I'm guessing this is already OK), then check the /etc/svc.conf for a similar set of values. --rdp --rdp On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Ionut Georgescu wrote: > Ionut Georgescu sends greetings to Jean-Paul Blaquiere > > >have you checked the permissions in the fonts dirs? > >It sounds like the users cannot access them ... > >are you running the OSF or the linux version of netscape? > >you might want to check the compaq libraries have been installed correctly > >too. (check the recent threads on that one) > > Hi, > > I have just tracked down the problem. It's a yp thing. The passwd database > is a NIS map. I have just created a local user "test" and netscape works > fine. No I need to figure out this yp thing. Any hints, ideas ?? > > Ionut > > *************** > * Ionut Georgescu > * http://www.physik.tu-cottbus.de/~george/ > * ICQ: 38973105 > * "In Windows you can do everything Microsoft wants you to do; in Unix you > * can do anything the computer is able to do." > > > > -- Rich Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.alphalinux.org
