New to NIS

[jayvo]

I am very new to NIS. Can someone help me get a server added to our domain. We have a machine running Solaris7 as an NIS master and i have just installed Solaris8 on an Intel box. i want to make it part of our NIS environment and have added the necessary info thus far such as edits to resolv.conf, hosts, defaultdomain, etc. What else do i need to do. I know it has something to do with yppasswd and ypbind. We did do something but now i get
"Could not chdir to home directory /home/name: No such file or directory"

what did i do wrong and does anyone have some steps to NIS administration. Thanks!!!

jayvo

 

[jad]

http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/rayh/solaris/NIS+_FAQ.html#3.4

seems to talk about replicas ... although it does talk about a NIS+ environment, you only need to add the compatibilty flag (if i remember correctly)

 

[arup61]

Of course you can make your new intel box a part of your NIS environment by configuring it a NIS client ( ypinit -c)As it seems there is already a master server in your domain so you can't add any more master server in the same domain.But you can still configure your m/c as slave server which keeps the replication of maps from the master server.
Please note you don't need /etc/resolve.conf file.That is ment for dns client.For Nis env you need to
1)create /etc/defaultdomain file with your domain name.
2)cp /etc/nsswitch.nis /etc/nsswitch.conf
3)ypinit -c (here you have to mention the server name)
4)dont forget to update the /etc/hosts file in your server
put your clients ip and hostname.

these all should able you to bind with your server.