From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 11 10:58: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61DE815056 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 10:57:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id NAA04634; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:57:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199903111857.NAA04634@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: NIS with Linux Server In-Reply-To: from Eduardo Viruena Silva at "Mar 11, 99 12:25:31 pm" To: mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx (Eduardo Viruena Silva) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:57:19 -0500 (EST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG cEduardo Viruena Silva wrote, > > Hello there! > > I have a Linux NIS server and a FreeBSD box and I want to export > the Linux users to the FreeBSD 2.2.8 box. > > I have successfully make two FreeBSD boxes export and import users > databases between them (it was really easy). > > I tried then to import the NIS password tables from my Linux Server > and I could not do it. Somehow v. gr. "finger" freezes when it is asking > for user information. Try 'ypcat' to check the maps are being received by the client. Could you give more details? The fact that you have gotten two FreeBSD boxes to talk makes me suspicious that your Linux server may not have been set up correctly. As for more details, a little about the net setup (both machines on same LAN)? The 'rc.conf' from FreeBSD, the 'init.d/network' from Linux (I dunno Linux, but that's where I would expect to find NIS on a SysV type startup)? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message