[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ryan Losh) writes: > > > > I'm afraid I didn't get the point with NIS. I installed the nis.deb on > > all our machines on the local network and followed the instructions in > > /usr/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto carefully: setting up a master and the > > clients. > > > > 1) Add the user on the "server" using adduser. > 2) as root, cd /var/yp > 3) as root, type make > > The last two steps updates the NIS server. If the clients could "see" the > NIS database before, they should recognise the new user you just added. > The problem is step 1 above -- adduser doesn't want to make a user but aborts with the already cited message: | adduser: `groupadd -g 1007 joachim' returned error code 2304. | Aborting. Cleaning upp. Seems I can't add a user on the server at all. Does anyone know something about this mysterious error code number?
I'm using the latest potato and kernel 2.2.5. I tried 2.2.1 before, but the NFS server functions wouldn't work at all. Greetings, joachim
