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Date:      Wed, 26 Jan 2000 22:19:08 -0500 (EST)
From:      Greg Skouby <gskouby@ns0.sitesnow.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   NIS client setup again
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001262200550.18850-100000@ns0.sitesnow.com>

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Hello,
I managed to resolve my previous problem with an NIS master server not
starting the yppasswdd. However, I managed to get one of the clients set
up but I am struggling with the only other client that I need to set up.

I have this in /etc/rc.conf:
nisdomainname="example.net"
nis_client_enable="YES"
nis_client_flags="-S example.net,web.example.net"


Within a couple of minutes after booting this client machine I see the
ypbind in the ps -aux but then it disappears shortly after that and it
appears that it never does its job because there is nothing in /var/yp
except Makefile.dist. I edited host.conf to contain this:
bind
nis
host

I edited the master.passwd with vipw to contain the "magic cookie" at the
end. 
Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong please. Any command that I issue
such as ypcat master.passwd gives me:

%ypcat master.passwd
ypcat: no such map master.passwd.byname. reason: Can't bind to server
which serves this domain


Any suggestions to keep me from pulling my hair out? I searched the
archives but found nothing really pertaining to my exact problem in there.
Thank you very much.





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