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okay i am halfway thru my sair cert. and i want to setup nis before i go for the networking test, so any help would be very appreciated. read the howto's for nis, believe i setup everything but for now i am getting an error "domain not bound when i type ypwhich on the server. can you be a server and host? i have rpc.portmap, ypserv and ypbind running on a slackware 7.1 nfs, samba server. i have edited all the files in the howto and will list them below.
i've run the rpcinfo -u localhost ypserv command and got the following:
program 100004 version 1 ready and waiting
program 100004 version 2 ready and waiting
i've run the /usr/lib/yp/ypinit -m command to make the database and everything seem to go fine.
let me know if this is too much or not enough info. hope this is any easy one.
here's what i finally got to work. in this order
on nis server:
add users you want to login
type ypserv
type domainname whatever.com
cd /yp vi makefile find the ALL: line and change to
ALL: ypservers passwd group hosts hosts shadow
type make
cd /usr/lib/yp type ./ypinit -m (it will stop at a question, do a ctr d to end)
on nis client:
cd /etc vi passwd, line after halt, add +:::::: and delete all lines after
type domainname whatever.com (same as on server)
type ypbind
logout and login at login prompt
this worked for me in that order, but then i couldn't get xwindows to work on the client, probably have to edit the Xauthority file
incase you didn't know nis is very insecure and rarely used. but if your like me and just like to play it's kind of cool. just replace your passwd file with passwd.old to go back to local login.
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