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Date:      Fri, 26 Jul 1996 14:23:01 -0400
From:      Branson Matheson <branson@widomaker.com>
To:        Thomas Bennett <bennett@centerline.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to setup NIS? 
Message-ID:  <199607261823.OAA20084@garion.hq.ferg.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Jul 1996 14:03:57 EDT." <9607261803.AA14243@anvil> 

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Thomas Bennett uttered with conviction:
> I am having some trouble setting up NIS on a FreeBSD 2.1.0 system. 
> I cannot find any documentation on how to setup up NI S.  I looked
> in the FAQ and the handbook. 
>
> This is what I have done:
>
> 1.  I set nis_clientflags to the following in my /etc/ sysconfig
> file:
>
> nis_clientflags="-s"

 Uhhh.. I gotta ask the obvious here... did you set the:

 # Set to the NIS domainname of your host, or NO if none
 defaultdomainname=ferguson

 to your domain? 

 also is it binding to your server? if not try ypset to do that.

  -branson

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