[newbie] nis not working

2004-11-01 Thread Russell W. Behne
I've been trying to get nis working on my home network. I'm to the point where both hosts can mount /home and other directories from the server, but users still can't log in. In http://rampex.ihep.su/Linux/linux_howto/html/tutorials/NIS-HOWTO-9.html it says that If everything is fine (as it

[newbie] nis password change doesnt work

2002-09-04 Thread Mike Barnard
I have a network that has a samba serving as the pdc, manages my windows logins, roaming profiles and all. I have recently finished configuring nfs/nis over mandrake 8.1 as the server and SuSE linux 7.2 on the client side. all my exports are working fine and nothing could be better, except that

[newbie] Nis on Linux

2002-06-19 Thread Srinivasa Raghavan
Hello All, I've recently installed Linux on my system and now I want to enable NIS login through this. I went through the linux-nis.org -HOWTO to enable NIS. I am mentioning the steps followed during the process. 1) Created yp.conf file with the DNS server name and ip address 2) checked

RE: [newbie] NIS XFree86 login problem

2001-04-09 Thread Morrell, Mike A
and chgrp all the directoryies and files everything worked fine. I can't wait for 8.0 to be released to go through this pain again. :-) -Original Message- From: Morrell, Mike A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 11:52 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] NIS XFree86

[newbie] NIS XFree86 login problem

2001-04-03 Thread Morrell, Mike A
Hello: I just setup a NIS server on a Debian box and have a Mandrake 7.2 client that I setup to login using NIS. I added +:: to the passwd file and see all the users on the login screen, but when I try to login it looks like the desktop is going to start but I get a grey screen and it jumps

Re: [newbie] NIS

2000-06-10 Thread John Arkoulis
Thanks Paul. That's exactly it. Thanks again On Thu, 08 Juan 2000, also sprach: On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, John Arkoulis wrote: When I boot I see a message Binding to NIS domain failed What is this. My box still work OK!!! During installation, did you set up a networking environment? If so,

Re: [newbie] NIS

2000-06-09 Thread Paul
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, John Arkoulis wrote: When I boot I see a message Binding to NIS domain failed What is this. My box still work OK!!! During installation, did you set up a networking environment? If so, there's probably something wrong with it, since the system tries to connect to a network

Re: [newbie] NIS

2000-06-09 Thread Mark Potochnik
Paul wrote: What was that with the L_M hats. Can we buy them Dunno. I sent a nag email to L-M, and Denis replied that they were not available but they gave some away at shows (he thought) I was just re-nagging him to get some available. It would be nice marketing I think.

[newbie] NIS

2000-06-08 Thread John Arkoulis
When I boot I see a message Binding to NIS domain failed What is this. My box still work OK!!! What was that with the L_M hats. Can we buy them -- Windoze is a virus with a user interface. This message was created with Linux

Re: [newbie] NIS help

1999-12-15 Thread www.nviet.net
type: setup and then click on Authen.. and then it will show the []NIS option which u can disable it.. On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Kit wrote: somehow, upon install...I inadvertently setup a NIS service...thinking I needed this to run a server. When I logoff...I've noticed that it doesn't

[newbie] NIS help

1999-12-09 Thread Kit
somehow, upon install...I inadvertently setup a NIS service...thinking I needed this to run a server. When I logoff...I've noticed that it doesn't shutdown...and therefore, I'm thinking that maybe this is the reason my modem says it's BUSY all the time...and I can't setup my modem. How do I

Re: [newbie] NIS help

1999-12-09 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Kitok. Let's say you're at your desktop (xsession). 1. press ctl-alt f2 to get to a console 2. sign in as root 3. at the console prompt type setup 4. with the color bar highlight Authentication Configuration (**) 5. with the tab key highlight Run Tool 6. press the spacebar to activate

[newbie] NIS

1999-12-07 Thread Dan Ferris
I am attempting to set up NIS to share passwords between two Linux computers. When I go to make the NIS database I get the following: failed to send 'clear' to local ypserv: RPC: Program not registeredfailed to send 'clear' to local ypserv: RPC: Program not registeredyphelper: This program is

[newbie] NIS

1999-12-07 Thread Dan Ferris
I have been trying to make an NIS database to share passwords and groups between my two Linux computers, but I keep on getting the following errors when I try to make the database: failed to send 'clear' to local ypserv: RPC: Program not registeredfailed to send 'clear' to local ypserv: RPC:

[newbie] nis

1999-12-03 Thread Jaswinder S. Ahluwalia
to whom it may concern, I'm pretty much a newbie to linux but the people at my work want me to set up a machine as a nis server. A collegue of mine sent me the following message I installed the ypserv RPM for you. You can start at the point where you configure /etc/ypserv.conf. So, can