Re: argh, NIS!

1996-10-09 Thread Swen Thuemmler
On 26 Sep 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > Nope, that doesn't work. I replaced ypbind-2.99 with a hacked version > of the BSD ypbind. The Linux ypbind-2.99 tends > to die when it wants to switch servers, which is a problem if you > have more then one NIS server and the one you're currently li

Re: argh, NIS!

1996-09-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dominik Kubla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I thought that using broadcasting to find ypserver was considered >> a security hazard, and it was better to explicitly specify the >> server location? (ie, that this is what NIS+, and hence NYS was >> going to require)

Re: argh, NIS!

1996-09-26 Thread Dominik Kubla
> I thought that using broadcasting to find ypserver was considered > a security hazard, and it was better to explicitly specify the > server location? (ie, that this is what NIS+, and hence NYS was > going to require)? Well, that can be done with Linux' NIS implementation as well, just put

Re: argh, NIS!

1996-09-26 Thread Mike Castle
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Perhaps you have setup your ethernet / localhost interfaces wrong? NIS >depends on broadcasts.. If the broadcast address is wrong, it will not >work. Check /etc/init.d/network. I thought that using broadcasting to

Re: argh, NIS!

1996-09-25 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Patrick J. Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > NIS is giving me a big headache. I want to run it though... so here >is the rror it keeps coming up with: > >$ yppasswd >YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: No bound server for domain possum.com >yppasswd: can't find the master yp

argh, NIS!

1996-09-25 Thread Patrick J. Edwards
NIS is giving me a big headache. I want to run it though... so here is the rror it keeps coming up with: $ yppasswd YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: No bound server for domain possum.com yppasswd: can't find the master ypserver: Can't bind to server which serves this domain $ domainname possum.com $ ps