RE: NIS Client Problem

["Roland Dunn" <roland@dunn.co.uk>]

Hi Alexis,

Thanks - in the end it was my own stupidity. The NIS server is an old
RedHat machine, I forgot to edit /etc/hosts.allow to include the new
server.

One thing though - the root password for my new (DEBIAN) server is the
local root password - how can I tell the new server to take its' root
pwd from NIS rather than use the local password?

Thanks, Roland.


-----Original Message-----
From: news [mailto:news@sea.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Alexis Huxley
Sent: 19 March 2004 10:51
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: NIS Client Problem


> I'm trying to join a Debian(Woody) machine to a NIS network.

Did you look at /usr/share/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz ? Did you
follow it ? :-) Are you trying to add it as a client or a slave server?
What OS is the NIS server?

> I'm getting the "YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not bound" error on
startup.
> Is there any logfile I can look into to try to debug this? Any
routines
> I can try to see how /etc/init.d/nis or /usr/sbin/ypbind is trying to
> find the NIS server?

If the above-mentioned nis.debian.howto doesn't help then maybe take
a look at http://tinyurl.com/2czht which contains the instructions
I used for *my* machines. It's not meant to be a HOWTO for anybody
except me, but it may give you some hints.

If all that fails, then can you post the contents of /etc/yp*,
/etc/defaultdomain, /etc/default/nis? (without all the comment lines
preferrably), like with:

    for F in /etc/yp* /etc/defaultdomain /etc/default/nis; do 
        echo "$F"
        echo "===================="
        egrep -v '^#|^$' "$F"
        echo
    done

Alexis


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