On 18/10/2007, Scott Ehrlich <scott at mit.edu> wrote: > On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, John Allen wrote: > > > When you do the ypinit -s, what name do you provide for the server? > > > > It must match the name the server expects, so if the server host name is nis, > > then you > > do > > > > ypinit -s nis.domainname > > I have successfully done ypinit -s ip_address or hostname on several > 32-bit clients and they've all been successful. Why are you running ypinit -s on clients? You only need to do this if you want to set up slave servers. NIS clients shouldn't need to do anything special on clients to bind to a server, all that needs to be done is to set up /etc/yp.conf James Pearson