RE: [newbie] NIS XFree86 login problem

2001-04-09 Thread Morrell, Mike A
For those that may come across this in the future, I have solved my own problem as usual. Make sure that the server and client machines are using the same user id and group id for the users files. My Debian machine had a userid of 1000 while the Mandrake machine was using 501. Once I chown and chg

Re: [newbie] NIS

2000-06-09 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 <> > >What is this. My box still work OK!!! > > During installation, did you set up a networking environment? If so, > there's probably som

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.

Re: [newbie] NIS

2000-06-09 Thread Paul
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, John Arkoulis wrote: >When I boot I see a message <> >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 domain that it can't locat

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 shutd

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