NIS problems

[jlaverdiere]

I am trying to setup NIS for my small redhat linux home network. I have redat version 5.2 for my nis clients and version 7.1 for my NIS server. I have been able to bind my clients to the server once or twice but decided to reinstall the software again on the clients and the server.
Now I cant get the clients to bind to the nis domain at all . I have specified the nis domain using the domainname command. I am using the sample yp.conf file with no changes and have started the ypbind daemons on the clients and the ypserv on the server. Are there any incompatibilities with using two different versions of redhat?? can I use the sample yp.conf unchanged. does the redhat 7.1 version use NIS or NIS+ any help on this subject would be appreciated .. you guys are great and I love this site!!

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

I'm pretty certain that the ypserv with RH7.1 is NIS and not NIS+. [I think the Linux client can use a NIS+ server, e.g. Solaris, but the Linux server itself is only NIS] As far as I recall, you need the ypserv rpm on the server and the ypbind and yp-tools rpms on each client. I guess you could try the 7.1 client rpms on the old 5.2 boxes - there are probably not that many dependencies involved.

The home page of the main NIS code cutter for Linux is :

http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/

. That guy also wrote the howto on the redhat site (although its not that redhat specific):

http://www.europe.redhat.com/documentation/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO

.

Try these first and let us know if you need more detail....

Rgds