weirdness with NIS

[bdfry]

ok...could someone explain this situation to me...
I am currently running NIS on a SparcServer 1000 running Solaris 6. I wish to upgrade to an Ultra 450 running Solaris 8. I tried this last night and everything seemed fine until I tried to change the ownership of a directory to a user which was included in /var/nis/passwd. I then tried another user and could not get it to work for any of them. The error message I received was stating that NIS could not recognize the user-name. The weird thing is that when I executed 'ypmatch' with a user name and the password file it located the user w/o error. When I changed the password for a user, it updated the proper passwd file (/var/nis/passwd). But it still will not allow me to change ownership of the user's directories. I made sure that there were not any entries in /etc/passwd for these users as well. Any help on this matter will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Brantley Fry
Systems Administrator I

 

[bdfry]

follow up information.....
I've executed the 'ypinit -m' command to make this the master and executed the 'make' command while in /var/yp.
We also coiped over directories from the old server to the new and these are the ones that I am having difficulty changing ownership of.

thanks again..... Brantley Fry
Systems Administrator I

 

[bdfry]

follow up to the follow up.........
the user directories all have a UID that is the same UID that exists in /var/nis/passwd for each user. In other words; user01 has a UID of 190 in /var/nis/passwd, when you execute 'ls -l' in /export/home the owner field for user01 has 190 in it instead of user01. Brantley Fry
Systems Administrator I