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Hello everybody,

I'm using Suse Linux 6.1 on to PCs connected through 2 3Com 509x cards.
Linux works on both of them and the network is also fine, since ping works
fine.

I'm relatively new to Linux, so I still fight with the installation of all
the nice features of Linux ;-) .
Yesterday I wanted to set up NIS and I did everything as it is described in
the Suse Handbook. No problem so far.

After rebooting both PCs, NIS did not work- the only thing I got was the
message "YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not found".

Please help me out and tell me what's wrong- and _please_ set the detail
level of your answer a little bit higher than usual, because - as I said -
I'm relatively new to unix.

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Thanks in advance,

 Bernhard

Sounds like you don't have a valid YP/NIS domain name.

You can set your hostname in /etc/yp.conf , this file sets your NIS domain.
I'm not sure what your setup is but typically, NIS will work w/ these two
components:

ypclient and ypserv ->  I suspect that your clients are windoze boxes and your
ypserv is the Linux box running SUSE..

If this is correct, you'll have to make sure that you've got ypserv running on
the SUSE box.
at the shell prompt do a "ps aux|grep yp" -- w/o the ""

If ypserv is running , it should look something like this :

green    31933  0.0  0.3   836   348  p3 S    19:09   0:00 grep yp
root     13033  0.0  0.1   840   128  ?  S   Mar 29   0:00 (ypbind)
root     13034  0.0  0.3   944   356  ?  S   Mar 29   0:00 ypbind (slave)
root     22354  0.0  3.1  3360  2968  ?  S   May  7   1:13 ypserv
root     22366  0.0  0.4   928   460  ?  S   May  7   0:00 rpc.ypxfrd
root     22377  0.0  0.4   952   396  ?  S   May  7   0:00 rpc.yppasswdd -D

Next -> If your running NT 4.0 , you'll have to check the "c:\var\yp\binding"
directory and make sure your ypserver name is in the directory.

I highly recommend that you take a look at the YP/NIS How-To.

Good luck..

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This may or may not apply to Suse, but on RedHat 6.0, /etc/yp.conf is
ignored, and instead you have to set NISDOMAIN="yourdomain" in
/etc/sysconfig/network. Also, make sure ypbind is being started.

Configuring yp with linuxconf deals with this, you may want to try it
if it's available, as it probably know of any idosyncracies of your
distribution.
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