From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 5 10:38:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C36014BD0 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 10:38:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA48995; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 13:42:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199912051842.NAA48995@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: freebsd as NIS-client? In-Reply-To: <19991205190732.A286@jens.dk> from "vepjan@image.dk" at "Dec 5, 1999 07:07:32 pm" To: vepjan@image.dk Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 13:42:36 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG vepjan@image.dk wrote, > > I have problems using my freebsd-3.3 box as a NIS client. [snip] > > On freebsd I did this: > domainname "the right domain" > ypbind > > As far as I understand I should then be able to > get a host by issuing > ypwhich IIRC, ypwhich does not actually _do_ anything, it just spits back the server that ypbind has found. > But it runs for about 2 minuttes (and then i cancel it). Hmmm... > I've browsed this mailing list to find answers/directions > for the setup. All I found was "man nis" and reading this > didn't help. > > The master is a Digital Unix 4.0d. Is the server on the same LAN? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message