NIS install

[Waldher, Travis R]

> _______________________________________
> From: Roldán [mailto:roldan at digi.cupet.cu] 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 5:19 PM
> To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com
> Subject: NIS install
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> Hello 
> Im setting up a NIS network and i have configured my server and a client.
> the problem is that when i do the ypinit -s myserver on the client i get
> this error message that sid that ther is not server runig in myserver. but > when i start up the sistem it say that the bind to the nis domain was
> [ok], what i'm missing here?
> thanks
 
ypinit -s myserver is used to setup another machine as a NIS slave. (A second NIS server that is a slave of your master.)

If a machine is just a client, all you need to do is configure ypbind.

The reason that you are getting the error that the server is not running on your client is that ypserve hasn't been set to run at startup.  If the machine is truly a client, you don't want ypserv running.

The next problem you will have, on your master, if when you ran ypinit, you didn't specify any slave servers that machine will fail to connect to the master.