RE: NIS Client Problem

See /etc/nsswitch.conf? The order of the options defines the order in which they're used. >> Thanks. I do very much wish to do this. So, I've altered my /etc/nsswitch.conf to look like: # /etc/nsswitch.conf # # Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality. # If you have the `gl

Re: NIS Client Problem

Incoming from Roland Dunn: > > 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? See /etc/nsswitch.conf? The order of the options defines the order in w

RE: NIS Client Problem

' 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) mac

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 start

RE: NIS Client Problem

Anyone any pointers as to where to start looking on this one? -Original Message- From: Roland Dunn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 March 2004 17:34 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NIS Client Problem I'm trying to join a Debian(Woody) machine to a NIS network. I'm g

NIS Client Problem

I'm trying to join a Debian(Woody) machine to a NIS network. 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?

Re: nis client problem (still)

[20030824] Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > See http://snapshot.debian.net/. I didn't know the existance of that site. Thanks. > > Any libc6 devs reading the list ? :) > > They're painfully aware of the problem. I know that, however I can't fully use my box at work & it makes me mad :

Re: nis client problem (still)

On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 03:19:26AM +0300, Manolis Tzanidakis wrote: > [20030823] Sebastian Kapfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The current libc6 is said to have broken NIS. Maybe you can locate an > > older version of the package and install it. > > I tried that too (I can even send libc6-2.3.1-

Re: nis client problem (still)

[20030823] Sebastian Kapfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The current libc6 is said to have broken NIS. Maybe you can locate an > older version of the package and install it. I tried that too (I can even send libc6-2.3.1-17 to whoever wants it), however lots of other packages on my system were upd

Re: nis client problem (still)

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 20:40:11 +0200, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi all, > I have a debian potato nis server. I have some debian woody desktops > (nis clients) configured. When I updated these machines do sid, the nis > stopped to work! :( Only when I do su

nis client problem (still)

Hi, I still cannot log with nis. I atached a strace log of: "su - user". Anyone can help me? Thanks, PH Hi all, I have a debian potato nis server. I have some debian woody desktops (nis clients) configured. When I