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Date:      Tue, 3 Oct 1995 18:52:34 +0000 ()
From:      Pedro A M Vazquez <vazquez@iqm.unicamp.br>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   FreeBSD NIS-client and SUN NIS+ in yp-compatability mode (fwd)
Message-ID:  <199510031852.SAA06257@kalypso.iqm.unicamp.br>

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Hello

Could someone help this guy? He's moving to Linux because he can't
make his FreeBSD nis client talk to the Sun NIS+ master
Pedro

> From: Andries J. Algera <andries@csr-lpf.ibama.gov.br>
> Subject: FreeBSD NIS-client and SUN NIS+ in yp-compatability mode
> 
[...]
> 
> I just installed FreeBSD-2.05a and was planning to use the FreeBSD
> nisclient for autentication with a SUN NIS+ server in
> "YP-compatibilitymode". 
> 
> Using ypcat on the FreeBSD machine, I managed to browse through the
> various NIS-maps.  However when it comes to logging in, I get the
> following error message: 
> 
> 	yp_order: clnt_call: RPC: Procedure unavailable
> 
> As FreeBSD doesn't have a manual page for the function yp_order, I had a 
> look at the page that comes with SUNOS-5.3., and read the following:
> 
>   yp_order(char *indomain, char *inmap, int *outorder); 
>           yp_order() returns the order number for a map.  This 
>           function is not supported if the ypbind process on the client's
> 	  system is bound to an NIS+ server running in
>           "YP-compatibility mode". 
> 
> Is this a known porblem? If so, is there already a new version of the 
> NIS-client that works with a NIS+ server in yp-compatibility mode that I 
> could test.
> 
> Before hand thanks for reading and hopefully answering my message.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Andries
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Andries Algera
> CSR - IBAMA
> ph: +5561 316-1218
> 	  316-1219
> 	  316-1220
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>  



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