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Re: NIS problem



On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Rishikesh wrote:

>
> 	I am trying to make NIS work on my home network. I have followed
> 	the HOWTO below to the word.
> 	http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debian-howto/nis.html I keep getting
> 	error message
>
> 	YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not bound
>
> 	I searched the archive of the debian mailing
> 	lists and did not find any discussion related to
> 	this message.
> 	Any help will be appreciated.
>
> 	I have a small 3 computer home network
> 	connected using a Belkin router.
>

NIS is broadcasting the net searching fo a server and to my experience
never finds it. To avoid this, manually add the ip address of your nis
server to /etc/yp.conf, the line that you have to add is something like:

ypserver 10.0.0.1

Xavier



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