From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 25 20:03:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA25121 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:03:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA24957 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:02:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA28535; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:02:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:02:43 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: matt@soffen.com cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <19980225062358.412.qmail@callie.soffen.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Please be really careful crossposting; NEVER crosspost -hackers and -questions and avoid it in general. On 25 Feb 1998 matt@soffen.com wrote: > From: Matthew Soffen > CC: > Subject: Unable to get NIS running on 2 differenet class c's. > I am trying to setup a NIS server and a single client too. > Both machines are set to the same domain (UltimateTV). > > The NIS server (206.230.220.131 - Running 2.2.5-RELEASE) appears to be running correctly. > It is able to perform yp lookups, yp. I can do yppasswd and it seems to work. However, > I am unable to get the client to bind (204.95.170.13 - Running 2.2.2-RELEASE). I have > tried the following commands when starting ypbind: > ypbind > ypbind -ypset -S UltimateTV,mainfreebsd > ypset -h freebsd -d UltimateTV mainfreebsd.ultimatetv.com > > None of these have worked. The ypset command times out and returns this error message: > can't yp_bind: Reason: Can't communicate with ypbind > > Any and all suggestions will be appreciated. Use the knobs in /etc/rc.conf to configure NIS first; see if that helps. Also poke /etc/host.conf and uncomment `nis'. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message