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Date:      Thu, 27 Jan 2000 14:08:56 -0500 (EST)
From:      Greg Skouby <gskouby@ns0.sitesnow.com>
To:        Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NIS client setup again  (fwd)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001271406510.63178-100000@ns0.sitesnow.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10001271221030.18537-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>

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I thought /var/yp/NISDOMAIN only existed on the master server? I am trying
to set up a client. Also, the other client I successfully set up doesn't
have /var/yp/NSIDOMAIN but it does have
/var/yp/binding/domainname.version. How would I go about ypxfer by hand
the maps I need? That sounds like it would give me some more verbose
errors at the least. I tried manually creating /var/yp/binding but no good
at all. Any other ideas?? Thanks


On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Steve Hovey wrote:

> 
> What I do is make /var/yp/NISDOMAIN where NISDOMAIN is the nis domain, do
> a forced ypxfer by hand of the tables I want to have it access (ie passwd,
> master.passwd), THEN try to boot it and/or ypset it.  ypbind is likely
> puking on a lack of a dir for the nis domain.
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 12:11:40 -0500
> From: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU>
> To: Greg Skouby <gskouby@ns0.sitesnow.com>
> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: NIS client setup again 
> 
> 
> Well most of these problems are secondary effects of ypbind not running.
> Getting ypbind running should take care of the rest.  Check
> /var/log/messages for any interesting messages.  Also you might try
> running ypbind without arguments in order to determine if the -S is
> what's causing the problem.  And you might want to use the IP address
> rather than domain name in the -S argument in order to not be dependent
> on name resolution.  Also you want "hosts" not "host" in host.conf.
> 
> -Mitch
> 
> 
> >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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