From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 8 12:46:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from defiant.quansoo.com (defiant.quansoo.com [63.66.225.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB9B637C341 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 12:45:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cgriffiths@quansoo.com) Received: from localhost (cgriffiths@localhost) by defiant.quansoo.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA01462 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:45:38 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cgriffiths@quansoo.com) X-Authentication-Warning: defiant.quansoo.com: cgriffiths owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:45:38 -0500 (EST) From: "Christopher T. Griffiths" To: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: NIS and DES password setup In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message