From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 8 13:20:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from defiant.quansoo.com (defiant.quansoo.com [63.66.225.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12CE237B58A for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 13:20:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cgriffiths@quansoo.com) Received: from localhost (cgriffiths@localhost) by defiant.quansoo.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA01809; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 16:20:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cgriffiths@quansoo.com) X-Authentication-Warning: defiant.quansoo.com: cgriffiths owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 16:20:13 -0500 (EST) From: "Christopher T. Griffiths" To: Mitch Collinsworth Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: NIS and DES password setup In-Reply-To: <200003082116.QAA80393@benge.graphics.cornell.edu> 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 Already tried that. That is why I tried to use the -S to force the bind. No luck there. Any other suggestions? Chris On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > > >The problem is when I ypbind -S domain-name,master and I try to do a ypcat > >of the passwd file it just sits there and finally throws an error stating > >it cannnot find or bind to the specified server. > > For purposes of debugging I would suggest first running ypbind without > the -S flag. If that works then it's pretty likely your problem has to > do with name resolution. > > -Mitch > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message