Here is the story. I have some machines(RedHat 7.1 and RedHat 7.3) in an NIS domain. Ypserv and ypbind work alright, and I have logged onto different machines with the NIS accounts.

My problem arises when I try to start KDE with one of the NIS accounts. The error I get is that "there is no /home/(NIS user/.DCOPserver_(server name)_:0" check to see if the dcopserver service is working". On a whim, I "mkdir" the .DCOPserver* directory in /home/(NIS user) and when I did that, the error message read "networkldsList argument is NULL: check to see if the dcopserver service is running". After that, when I "ls" into the /home/(NIS user) directory, the new .DCOPserver*directory I made does not show up.

I get a KDE GUI just fine with root, so my dcopserver is working. Keep in mind that this problem only arises on an NIS client. On my NIS master, I get a GUI without any problem with my NIS user accounts.

Is there anything I can do about this?