Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 01:36:13 -0600 (CST) From: Font <font@Mcs.Net> To: "Jesse, Roland" <rjesse@uwsp.edu> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: NIS client setup Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971124013233.22626A-100000@Jupiter.Mcs.Net> In-Reply-To: <D88928C46B05D0118A72080009AD8E31034F2106@ems1.uwsp.edu>
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Bill Paul wrote a reply to a question of mine in a similar vein, which I
missed, but luckily found on my news server again. You can look it up on
Deja News with a subject of "NIS/YP subnets and slave servers" in
comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc.
Basically, if the server and the client are on different subnets, it won't
work. This may be changed in the future. But for right now, what you
probably need to do is to make this client also a slave server, use ypxfr
to manually copy over all the maps from the master to the slave server,
and add the slaver server to the master's ypservers file.
After all that's done, you can then make the client bind to itself, and
since it's a slave server it should get the updates from the server fine.
Of course, if the master isn't FreeBSD, then I have no idea whether this
would work or not, all bets are off. But at this point the client can
only bind to a server on the same subnet, due to the way the client
searcher for the server.
A bug in my MUA causes news.announce.newusers font
to be sent to beneficiaries and senders of UCE/SPAM. @
mcs.net
Wishes are like dishes.
On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Jesse, Roland wrote:
> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 19:10:05 -0600
> From: "Jesse, Roland" <rjesse@uwsp.edu>
> To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Subject: NIS client setup
>
> I am very sorry to bring up this topic again. So far, there seems to be
> no NIS section in the Handbook and nothing in the FAQ. So I searched the
> mailinglist archives. As a result I know at least, that I am not the
> first person, who asks that question here. (*grmpf* ;))
>
> Ok, what I did so far is this:
>
> in /etc/rc.conf:
> hostname="marvin.cs.uni-magdeburg.de"
> nisdomainname="isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de"
> nis_client_enable="YES"
> nis_client_flags="-s"
> nis_ypset_enable="YES"
> nis_ypset_flags="simsrv.cs.uni-magdeburg.de"
>
> /etc/master.passwd (using vipw):
> added last line "+:::::::::"
>
> /etc/group:
> added last line "+:::"
>
> /etc/host.conf:
> uncommented the line containing "nis". (last line of the file, "bind"
> and "hosts" are uncommented, too)
>
> I rebooted the machine.
>
> As a result, the login process slowed down and takes a cupple of minutes
> now. I cannot access the NIS pages. That means, "ypcat passwd" (as an
> example) returns (after quite a while):
> No such map passwd.byname. Reason: Can't bind to server which serves
> this domain
>
> There are two machines involved. The first is simsrv. It is the NIS
> server for isg.cs... This machine is running SunOS 5.x. The second
> machine is marvin.cs... This is supposed to be the NIS client. It runs
> FreeBSD 3.0-970807-SNAP.
>
> If that is importand - the two machines are not in the same subnet:
> marvin.cs: 141.44.20.29
> simsrv.cs: 141.44.23.11
>
> Of course is any kind of help really appriciated,
>
> -- Roland
>
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