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Date:      Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:02:43 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        matt@soffen.com
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980225200147.28338j-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19980225062358.412.qmail@callie.soffen.com>

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On 25 Feb 1998 matt@soffen.com wrote:

> From: Matthew Soffen <matt@soffen.com>
> CC: <matt@soffen.com>
> Subject: Unable to get NIS running on 2 differenet class c's.
> I am trying to setup a NIS server and a single client too.
> Both machines are set to the same domain (UltimateTV).
> 
> The NIS server (206.230.220.131 - Running 2.2.5-RELEASE) appears to be running correctly.  
> It is able to perform yp lookups, yp.  I can do yppasswd and it seems to work.   However, 
> I am unable to get the client to bind (204.95.170.13 - Running 2.2.2-RELEASE).  I have 
> tried the following commands when starting ypbind:
> 	ypbind
> 	ypbind -ypset -S UltimateTV,mainfreebsd
> 	ypset -h freebsd -d UltimateTV mainfreebsd.ultimatetv.com
> 
> None of these have worked.  The ypset command times out and returns this error message:
> 	can't yp_bind: Reason: Can't communicate with ypbind
> 
> Any and all suggestions will be appreciated.

Use the knobs in /etc/rc.conf to configure NIS first; see if that helps. 

Also poke /etc/host.conf and uncomment `nis'.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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