From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 10 05:25:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id FAA10988 for current-outgoing; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 05:25:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from veda.is (veda.is [193.4.230.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id FAA10978 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 05:24:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from veda.is (ubiq.veda.is [193.4.230.60]) by veda.is (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id NAA07521; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 13:24:40 GMT Message-Id: <199701101324.NAA07521@veda.is> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0beta 12/23/96 To: Developer cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help -- Netscape problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 10 Jan 1997 13:02:45 GMT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 13:31:51 +0000 From: Adam David Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > are you a NIS user on the -current machine but a local user on the 2.2 > > machine? I'll agree, it's not a very informative error message from netscape > > for such a case. > > Thanks for the information --- Any ideas how I can fix this? The workaround is to create a local user on the NIS client machine for each user of netscape. I believe the problem occurs because the netscape binary is linked static, and there is some incompatibility between BSDI and FreeBSD concerning NIS support. The netscape mail client sucks anyway, might it be possible to hook in another client to respond to a mailto: URL event? (I can't imagine anyone wanting to use netscape mail for any other purpose ;) -- Adam David