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 in

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.