Re: NIS problems on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-08-09 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 09), Jeremy Utley said: > On 8/8/05, Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In the last episode (Aug 08), Jeremy Utley said: > > > I'm trying to use FreeBSD 5.4 as an NIS client, and am > > > encountering problems. I've followed the instructions given in > > > the FreeB

Re: NIS problems on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-08-09 Thread Jeremy Utley
On 8/8/05, Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the last episode (Aug 08), Jeremy Utley said: > > I'm trying to use FreeBSD 5.4 as an NIS client, and am encountering > > problems. I've followed the instructions given in the FreeBSD docs > > (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/h

Re: NIS problems on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-08-08 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 08), Jeremy Utley said: > I'm trying to use FreeBSD 5.4 as an NIS client, and am encountering > problems. I've followed the instructions given in the FreeBSD docs > (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-nis.html) > successfully, but the system

NIS problems on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-08-08 Thread Jeremy Utley
Greetings all! I'm trying to use FreeBSD 5.4 as an NIS client, and am encountering problems. I've followed the instructions given in the FreeBSD docs (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-nis.html) successfully, but the system does not recognize my NIS users. Running

Re: NIS problems solved

2004-01-24 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 04:07:51PM -0600, kitsune wrote: > > Found my problem... a pwd_mkdb is required... but not mentioned in the > hand book... The handbook section dealing with setting up NIS clients tells you to use 'vipw' to edit master.passwd, which will make sure that a pwd_mkdb is done.

Re: NIS problems solved

2004-01-24 Thread kitsune
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 12:47:32 -0600 Vulpes Velox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've recently set up a NIS server on my lan. All machines are > running freebsd 4stable. > > I have added the nisdomainname and nis_client_enable lines to the > client machines along with the correct lines on the server

NIS problems

2004-01-24 Thread Vulpes Velox
I've recently set up a NIS server on my lan. All machines are running freebsd 4stable. I have added the nisdomainname and nis_client_enable lines to the client machines along with the correct lines on the server in rc.conf. I have also added +: to the end of /etc/master.passwd and +:*:: t