From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 13 21:58:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.siscom.net (mail.siscom.net [209.251.2.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 53FBD37B416 for ; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 21:58:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 36629 invoked by uid 0); 14 Apr 2002 04:58:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO satellite) (209.251.26.188) by 0 with SMTP; 14 Apr 2002 04:58:42 -0000 Message-ID: <000501c1e370$64d2bf60$0200a8c0@satellite> From: "dave" To: Cc: Subject: freebsd nis serving linux clients solution. Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 00:53:59 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, My thanks to all who offered suggestions on my problem of Freebsd nis serving linux clients. The solution, actually the problem in summary, clients could get user information from the nis server, but users couldn't log in on clients. The solution was to touch /var/yp/group, don't ask me why but that did it. That also fixed proftpd as well. Thanks again. Dave. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message