Re: NIS problem
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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