Re: NIS problem
Thanks for your replies. I made the following changes and it
worked.
added ypserver in yp.conf
I changed 192.168.2.31/255.255.255.0 to 192.168.2.0/255.255.255.0
in hosts.allow
The second step was neccessary although logically both
are equivalent.
Rishi
* Ernest Johanson (ejohan@fuller.edu) [030916 20:24]:
> Try editing your /etc/nsswitch.conf file, changing the entry for passwd
> and group to "files nis" instead of "compat".
>
> Ernest Johanson
> Systems Administrator
> Fuller Theological Seminary
>
>
> On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Xavier Andrade wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 13:51:01 -0400 (CLT)
> > From: Xavier Andrade <xavier@zeth.ciencias.uchile.cl>
> > To: Rishikesh <rishi@math.ohio-state.edu>
> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: 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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