Hello Andrea, > > You have to set the nis domainname first. > Do you mean that I had to set up /etc/defaultdomain and run "/etc/init.d/nis stop" and "/etc/init.d/nis start"? I had done this (as described in /usr/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto). This does not seem to the problem. Cheers, Thomas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org . Trouble? e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .