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From: Robert Shady <rls@mail.id.net>
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Subject: Re: freebsd nis
In-Reply-To: <199706260126.BAA00858@mail.1earth.net> from Brad Forschinger at "Jun 26, 97 03:22:20 am"
To: bradf@1earth.net (Brad Forschinger)
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> With all the help that the handbook has given me with nis <not>, I've been
> forced to hassle people on irc and that hasn't gotten me too much further.
> I've managed to get a master server up and going, now the problem is in
> getting the client to work.
> The + entry has been put in both /etc/passwd and /etc/group on the client
> machine, and rc.conf has been set for nis client. With ypbind running i'm
> unable to do a rpcinfo -p <anyhost>, i kill ypbind and all runs fine. This
> leads me to believe that something is going wrong with ypbind, it sholdn't
> be though. From what i've learnt ypbind will send out requests to find the
> master server and then bind to it, for some reason this isn't happening? 
> 
> # domainname
> radius
> # ypwhich
> can't yp_bind: Reason: Domain not found

Did you create your master files on the master YP server?

cd /var/yp ; make

	-- Rob
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