I have been trying for a whole day to get nis to work, but it will not. I have a minimal LAN with two computers. They both are running slink; the server has been upgraded from hamm (2.0).
I have managed to make ypcat work, it is also possible to finger. But when I try to login on the nis-client with my user pow the xconsole window tells me: May 1 17:06:21 lazy login[571]: no shadow password for `pow' on `ttyp2' May 1 17:06:23 lazy login[571]: invalid password for `pow' on `ttyp2' I have no idea why, I have tried many things. On the nis-server in /var/yp I have done 'make' 'make passwd' 'make group' 'make shadow' 'make', I still don´t get it to work. When I was ready to give up I changed the password for pow on the nis-client with yppasswd, then it worked, and I could change it on to server to with out any problems. But that isn´t necessary in a working system, is it? I have added +:::::: in passwd, +:::::::: in shadow and +::: in group and in /var/yp/nicknames I´ve added 'shadow shadow.byname', just in case. I have done Somme on both the nis-client and the nis-server. If I restart the nis-server the console on the nis-client print out this message: May 1 18:42:27 lazy icmplogd: destination unreachable from supreme.pow.com [192.0.0.7] I don't know why, after all ypcat works, as well as finger. The nis-clients name is lazy and the server is supreme (but right now I don´t think that it is so very great). / Per-Olof Widström -- And I know that there are people in this world who do not love their fellow human beings and I hate people like that. Contact me? Try [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://www.big.du.se/~pow/contact_page.html