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Date:      Fri, 10 Jan 1997 13:31:51 +0000
From:      Adam David <adam@veda.is>
To:        Developer <dev@fgate.flevel.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help -- Netscape problem 
Message-ID:  <199701101324.NAA07521@veda.is>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Jan 1997 13:02:45 GMT." <Pine.BSF.3.95.970110130228.23695A-100000@fgate.flevel.co.uk> 

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> > are you a NIS user on the -current machine but a local user on the 2.2
> > machine? I'll agree, it's not a very informative error message from netscape
> > for such a case.
> 
> Thanks for the information --- Any ideas how I can fix this?

The workaround is to create a local user on the NIS client machine for each
user of netscape. I believe the problem occurs because the netscape binary is
linked static, and there is some incompatibility between BSDI and FreeBSD
concerning NIS support.

The netscape mail client sucks anyway, might it be possible to hook in another
client to respond to a mailto: URL event? (I can't imagine anyone wanting to
use netscape mail for any other purpose ;)

--
Adam David <adam@veda.is>




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