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Date:      Mon, 06 Dec 1999 01:37:09 +0100
From:      "Ahmed Benani" <ahmed_benani@urbanet.ch>
To:        cjclark@home.com, vepjan@image.dk
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re : freebsd as NIS-client?
Message-ID:  <19991206003818.125EA15002@hub.freebsd.org>

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>De=A0: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
>=C0 : vepjan@image.dk
>Cc : freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>Objet=A0: Re: freebsd as NIS-client?
>Date=A0: Dim 5 d=E9c 1999 19:42
>

>vepjan@image.dk wrote,
>> 
>> I have problems using my freebsd-3.3 box as a NIS client.
>[snip]
>>
>> On freebsd I did this:
>> domainname "the right domain"
>> ypbind
>> 
>> As far as I understand I should then be able to
>> get a host by issuing 
>> ypwhich
>
>IIRC, ypwhich does not actually _do_ anything, it just spits back the
>server that ypbind has found.
>
>> But it runs for about 2 minuttes (and then i cancel it).
>
>Hmmm...
>
>> I've browsed this mailing list to find answers/directions
>> for the setup. All I found was "man nis" and reading this
>> didn't help. 
>> 
>> The master is a Digital Unix 4.0d.
>
>Is the server on the same LAN?
>-- 
>Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com
>
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