Fwd: Problems with NIS on RedHat Enterprise 5.3 system.

[Barry Brimer]

Quoting Margaret Doll <Margaret_Doll at brown.edu>:

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> Begin forwarded message:
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> > From: Margaret Doll <Margaret_Doll at brown.edu>
> > Date: March 16, 2009 4:10:23 PM EDT
> > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
> > Subject: Problems with NIS on RedHat Enterprise 5.3  system.
> > Reply-To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com
> > >
> >
> > I need documentation  on NIS client for an RH Enterprise 5.3 system.
> > Also  please send any suggestions as to what we have  misconfigured
> > on our client.
> >
> > We have a 2.6.18-128.1.1.el5xen system on which we are trying to
> > configure NIS  client software.
> > Our NIS server is a Solaris system running  SunOS 5.8.

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Did you use system-config-authentication so that all necessary files would be
modified, or did you modify files by hand?