Hi Alexis, Thanks - in the end it was my own stupidity. The NIS server is an old RedHat machine, I forgot to edit /etc/hosts.allow to include the new server.
One thing though - the root password for my new (DEBIAN) server is the local root password - how can I tell the new server to take its' root pwd from NIS rather than use the local password? Thanks, Roland. -----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexis Huxley Sent: 19 March 2004 10:51 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NIS Client Problem > I'm trying to join a Debian(Woody) machine to a NIS network. Did you look at /usr/share/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz ? Did you follow it ? :-) Are you trying to add it as a client or a slave server? What OS is the NIS server? > I'm getting the "YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not bound" error on startup. > Is there any logfile I can look into to try to debug this? Any routines > I can try to see how /etc/init.d/nis or /usr/sbin/ypbind is trying to > find the NIS server? If the above-mentioned nis.debian.howto doesn't help then maybe take a look at http://tinyurl.com/2czht which contains the instructions I used for *my* machines. It's not meant to be a HOWTO for anybody except me, but it may give you some hints. If all that fails, then can you post the contents of /etc/yp*, /etc/defaultdomain, /etc/default/nis? (without all the comment lines preferrably), like with: for F in /etc/yp* /etc/defaultdomain /etc/default/nis; do echo "$F" echo "====================" egrep -v '^#|^$' "$F" echo done Alexis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
