Hi,
On the clients, you could try doing this. Run the setup utility and select authentication configuration. Enable NIS and specify the domain name and ypserver ip address. This should work out. Also you may have to edit the /etc/nsswitch.conf file and enable nis as the default naming service. Cheers, Surjo. --- nice gal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > i am trying to setup nis on my lan. i have read the > nis howto. have started the time and portmap > services > on server as well as all clients. > i have setup the nis server ypserv and yppasswdd on > one machine with address 192.168.0.6. > i have also started the ypbind on that machine. now > when i do ypwhich and ypcat hosts or ypcat passwd on > that machine it gives right results. > but other machines which have properly configured > ypbind service are not able to bind to the domain. > i am using redhat linux 7.2. > /etc/yp.conf file on clients has following contents: > > ypserver 192.168.0.6 > > i also tried the following for the yp.conf > > domain mydomain server 192.168.0.6. > > also i replaced the ipaddress in above line with > hostname after adding the hostname in /etc/hosts > file > on the clients. but it does not work still. the > clients are able to telnet the server with the > hostname of server also. > what could be the problem. any idea anybudy. do i > have > to setup the /etc/passwd file with some special > entries or what. > please help. > > madhuri > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Sports - sign up for Fantasy Baseball > http://sports.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help ===== Linux, the final frontier. This is the voyage of the Star Technology Linux. Its continuing mission: to explore new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilisations, to boldly go where no Technology has gone before� __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - sign up for Fantasy Baseball http://sports.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
