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Date:      Fri, 28 Jan 2000 08:22:10 -0500 (EST)
From:      Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To:        Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU>
Cc:        Greg Skouby <gskouby@ns0.sitesnow.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NIS client setup again (fwd) 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10001280822041.23207-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <200001271940.OAA60854@benge.graphics.cornell.edu>

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Yup I misread the original.

On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Mitch Collinsworth wrote:

> 
> I hate to disagree with Mr. Hovey, but his message sounds like he is
> talking about a slave server setup, which is not what you are asking
> about.
> 
> -Mitch
> 
> 
> >I thought /var/yp/NISDOMAIN only existed on the master server? I am trying
> >to set up a client. Also, the other client I successfully set up doesn't
> >have /var/yp/NSIDOMAIN but it does have
> >/var/yp/binding/domainname.version. How would I go about ypxfer by hand
> >the maps I need? That sounds like it would give me some more verbose
> >errors at the least. I tried manually creating /var/yp/binding but no good
> >at all. Any other ideas?? Thanks
> >
> >
> >On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Steve Hovey wrote:
> >
> >> 
> >> What I do is make /var/yp/NISDOMAIN where NISDOMAIN is the nis domain, do
> >> a forced ypxfer by hand of the tables I want to have it access (ie passwd,
> >> master.passwd), THEN try to boot it and/or ypset it.  ypbind is likely
> >> puking on a lack of a dir for the nis domain.
> >> 
> >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 12:11:40 -0500
> >> From: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU>
> >> To: Greg Skouby <gskouby@ns0.sitesnow.com>
> >> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> >> Subject: Re: NIS client setup again 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Well most of these problems are secondary effects of ypbind not running.
> >> Getting ypbind running should take care of the rest.  Check
> >> /var/log/messages for any interesting messages.  Also you might try
> >> running ypbind without arguments in order to determine if the -S is
> >> what's causing the problem.  And you might want to use the IP address
> >> rather than domain name in the -S argument in order to not be dependent
> >> on name resolution.  Also you want "hosts" not "host" in host.conf.
> >> 
> >> -Mitch
> >> 
> >> 
> >> >Hello,
> >> >I managed to resolve my previous problem with an NIS master server not
> >> >starting the yppasswdd. However, I managed to get one of the clients set
> >> >up but I am struggling with the only other client that I need to set up.
> >> >
> >> >I have this in /etc/rc.conf:
> >> >nisdomainname="example.net"
> >> >nis_client_enable="YES"
> >> >nis_client_flags="-S example.net,web.example.net"
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >Within a couple of minutes after booting this client machine I see the
> >> >ypbind in the ps -aux but then it disappears shortly after that and it
> >> >appears that it never does its job because there is nothing in /var/yp
> >> >except Makefile.dist. I edited host.conf to contain this:
> >> >bind
> >> >nis
> >> >host
> >> >
> >> >I edited the master.passwd with vipw to contain the "magic cookie" at the
> >> >end. 
> >> >Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong please. Any command that I issue
> >> >such as ypcat master.passwd gives me:
> >> >
> >> >%ypcat master.passwd
> >> >ypcat: no such map master.passwd.byname. reason: Can't bind to server
> >> >which serves this domain
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >Any suggestions to keep me from pulling my hair out? I searched the
> >> archives but found nothing really pertaining to my exact problem in there.
> >> >Thank you very much.
> >> 
> >> 
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