Per Qvindesland wrote:

Hi list

Does anyone know about a good howto setup nis and to make ad see it and use the usernames?

I haven't actually set up NIS in the machine I'm using right now, but if I remember correctly, what you need to do to get a machine to use the usernames and passwords on an existing NIS server is:

1. Insert a line like domain yourdomainname broadcast in the file /etc/yp.conf. 2. Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf; change the line passwd: files to passwd: files nis or passwd: nis files 3. /sbin/chkconfig ypbind start

If you are using DHCP and the DHCP server knows the NIS domain name, it's even simpler, as 1) should be done automatically (but it's always a good idea to check the file just in case.)

If you're talking about setting up a NIS server, I can't recall much about how it's done, I'm afraid...

- Toralf

Regards Per Qvindesland E-mail: per@norhex.com http://webmail.norhex.com/# http://www.linkedin.com/in/perqvindesland

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