Hi All,
I have just installed NIS server and clients packages on my two MDK8.0 machines.
NIS server is found on client boot OK.
I have tried diff configurations of the /etc/passwd (client) file but I have problems.
If I add +:: to the first line and +username::, the username can log in b
You can remap the uid's through NIS, but that seems to be really a big
pain. It is much easier to ensure that the NIS users use a different
uid range than the system accounts. On most systems system accounts use
uids below 100 (and more recently below 500). On mandrake on the other
hand it s
Hello,
I am trying to set up a NIS server an client by the first time and
I am having a client problem with it. I have been following the steps
provided at Mandrake Campus:
http://www.mandrakecampus.org/
The problem is a conflict between the server's groups' id n
> 2) After the server is found I log off and try to log on with the
> username/password entries of the server's maps. I do not get an
> authentication failure, which means that the entries were found, the
> username/password form disappears for a couple of seconds but then appears
> again. I neve
Hi there,
I have configured NIS in a small subnet running RedHat6.1 (server) and
Mandrake7 (clients and server). I have installed ypbind on the server and
works fine (I can get the entries with ypmatch, ypcat etc. without
problems.) The yp.conf and nsswitch.conf files on both the server and the
cl
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Antoniou, Stylianos wrote:
> First question: What is that @/usr/bin/gawk file?
either or its a way of saying "can't find /usr/bin/gawk" or is a
type in the makefile... IIRC, I had the same problem, and fixing the
makefile make it work...
> Now, I restart ypbind ( I
Hi there,
I am setting up a small subnet with Mandrake 7 (glibc-2.1.2, ypserv-Version:
1.3.9-2mdk and ypbind-Version: 3.3-23mdk ) and I am trying to configure
NIS.
I read the HOWTO and the part about NIS in the Network Administrator's Guide
of the Linux Documentation Project but still it doesn't
