From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 17 16:16:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDF0416A41F for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:16:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from subscriber@insignia.com) Received: from highland.isltd.insignia.com (highland.isltd.insignia.com [195.74.141.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4941643D48 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:16:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from subscriber@insignia.com) Received: from inchgower.internal.local (inchgower-e0.isltd.insignia.com [195.74.141.61]) by highland.isltd.insignia.com (8.12.6p3/8.12.6) with ESMTP id k0HGGAAl022685 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:16:10 GMT (envelope-from subscriber@insignia.com) Received: from exchange-uk.internal.local (exchange-uk [172.16.64.9]) by inchgower.internal.local (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k0HGGAtt022632 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:16:10 GMT (envelope-from subscriber@insignia.com) Received: from dylan.internal.local ([172.16.64.69]) by exchange-uk.internal.local with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id XFAHQLB7; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:16:10 -0000 From: Jim Hatfield To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:16:10 +0000 Organization: Insignia Solutions Message-ID: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 3.1/32.783 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.53 on 195.74.141.1 Subject: NIS client differences between FBSD5 and FBSD6? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:16:15 -0000 Still trying to migrate our NIS from an old Sparc to a Services For Unix/Active Directory setup. AMD won't play so I'm using text files for that. Now to move forward to actually logging in.... A test machine running FreeBSD 6 seems to work OK, though "ypwhich -m" behaves strangely: >speyburn# uname -v >FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 17 12:42:17 GMT 2005 = root@speyburn.internal.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC >speyburn# ypwhich -m >ypwhich: can't find the master of `: reason: No such map in server's = domain >speyburn# ypwhich -m ypservers >axiom >speyburn# id jhatfield >uid=3D115(jhatfield) gid=3D100(Domain Users) groups=3D100(Domain Users),= 0(wheel) But a production machine running FreeBSD 5 does not: >banff# uname -v >FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p16 #1: Wed Apr 7 15:14:39 BST 2004 = root@banff.isltd.insignia.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BANFF >banff# ypwhich -m >ypservers axiom >banff# id jhatfield >id: jhatfield: no such user The only change I made is to the nisdomainname line in /etc/rc.conf, followed by a reboot. All the ypxxx commmands seem to work OK, yet usernames can't be looked up. Why would this be? I really don't want to replace this machine with a FBSD6 machine just to fix this, though I will if I have to. Jim