I don't think I understand the NIS Howto. I was left with the impression that with libc6 installed, I would not need ypbind because libc6 knows about NIS all by itself. I have set up another system as an NIS server (running ypserv), but my client system cannot seem to see the information from that server. It is the case that ypbind must be running on any NIS client system regardless of whether it is using libc6 or not? Thanks. nl