From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 29 09:42:06 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA16256 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:42:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bright.fx.genx.net (bright.fx.genx.net [206.64.4.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA16247 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:42:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by bright.fx.genx.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA40197; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 12:48:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: bright.fx.genx.net: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 12:48:41 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@bright.fx.genx.net To: Tim Preece cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Telnet and NIS queries In-Reply-To: <9q$ZtHAN9es2EwEW@scratch.demon.co.uk> 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 On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Tim Preece wrote: > Hi, > > I am having a few problems with my v.small network. > > I have 2 boxes both pc's, one running FreeBSD nearly current (Updated > begin Jan) and the other running 3.0 release. > > Firstly I was able to telnet to 127.0.0.1 and log in as root, however > now even this seems to be causing problems the same as if I try to > telnet to the other box and log in as root. > > This is the message that I get > > scratch2 login: LOGIN root REFUSED (NOROOT) from scratch1.netlink on TTY > ttyp0 you are not allowed to login as root over the network. > > The other problem is that I am having problems with networked accounts, > unable to log on as anything from one machine except that which was > created on it > > Don't know if this is anything to do with it but I get this message > > scratch1 login: LOGIN FAILURE from scratch1.netlink > repeat > repeat > scratch login: NIS netgroup support not configured > > reading about netgroup and creating /etc/netgroup with only + in it > and re-make the yp Makefile does not produce netgrp.byname etc > > Do I need netgroup and if so what am I doing wrong, Is this a problem > with having ELF on one box and aout on the other !!!!! no, this is a NIS configuration error. you don't even mention configuring one of these boxes as a server for NIS... have you done this? > any help much appreciated man yp -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message