Re: argh, NIS!

1996-10-09 Thread Swen Thuemmler
On 26 Sep 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Nope, that doesn't work. I replaced ypbind-2.99 with a hacked version of the BSD ypbind. The Linux ypbind-2.99 tends to die when it wants to switch servers, which is a problem if you have more then one NIS server and the one you're currently

Re: argh, NIS!

1996-09-26 Thread Mike Castle
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps you have setup your ethernet / localhost interfaces wrong? NIS depends on broadcasts.. If the broadcast address is wrong, it will not work. Check /etc/init.d/network. I thought that using broadcasting to find

Re: argh, NIS!

1996-09-26 Thread Dominik Kubla
I thought that using broadcasting to find ypserver was considered a security hazard, and it was better to explicitly specify the server location? (ie, that this is what NIS+, and hence NYS was going to require)? Well, that can be done with Linux' NIS implementation as well, just put

Re: argh, NIS!

1996-09-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dominik Kubla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought that using broadcasting to find ypserver was considered a security hazard, and it was better to explicitly specify the server location? (ie, that this is what NIS+, and hence NYS was going to require)? Well,

argh, NIS!

1996-09-25 Thread Patrick J. Edwards
NIS is giving me a big headache. I want to run it though... so here is the rror it keeps coming up with: $ yppasswd YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: No bound server for domain possum.com yppasswd: can't find the master ypserver: Can't bind to server which serves this domain $ domainname possum.com $ ps

Re: argh, NIS!

1996-09-25 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Patrick J. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NIS is giving me a big headache. I want to run it though... so here is the rror it keeps coming up with: $ yppasswd YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: No bound server for domain possum.com yppasswd: can't find the master ypserver: