Re: NIS problems

[Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxx>]

Sunil Sarat <sunil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I've got one NIS server running on Linux (version 1.3.3 with tcp wrapper). It
> is configured as master server.
> 
> On one more linux machine I've tried configuring NIS slave. On this machine
> ypbind (version 3.3) is running
> When I try to issue the command ypwhich, I get the  error message
> "can't yp-bind RPC failure on NIS operation"
> Also when I try ypcat passwd, nothing gets displayed
> 

Follow the NIS-HOWTO verbatim. 

1. Has your domainname been set ?
2. Have you run /var/yp/Makefile on the server ?
3. Do you have ypbind running on both the server and the client ?

	-Arun

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