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Date:      Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:45:38 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Christopher T. Griffiths" <cgriffiths@quansoo.com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: NIS and DES password setup
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003081544420.1457-100000@defiant.quansoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003081529030.1311-100000@defiant.quansoo.com>

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Sorry for the reply to my own post but I forgot to say that I am using 
3.4 -stable cvsuped as of yesterday afternoon.

Thanks


> Hello,
> 
> I have two machines that I am trying to setup using NIS.
> 
> They are both using DES for passwords and I have one machine setup as the
> master server and one as a client.
> 
> The master server is also setup to be a client as well and works just fine
> for any NIS users I setup on it.
> 
> The problem is when I ypbind -S domain-name,master and I try to do a ypcat
> of the passwd file it just sits there and finally throws an error stating
> it cannnot find or bind to the specified server.  Both these machines are
> setup exactly alike as far as client machines.  The only difference is
> that the Master machine works as a client and the regular client does not.
> 
> Any suggestions.  I have followed all the faqs on NIS that I could find in
> the archives and setting up a Master server was no problem.  Just need
> help getting the client working.
> 
> Thanks
> 



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