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Operating Systems Solaris NIS problems in Sun 5.10 Post 302268498 by Keepcase on Monday 15th of December 2008 06:07:08 PM

12-15-2008

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NIS problems in Sun 5.10

Hi everyone! I have a problem with NIS and I'm hoping one of you experts can point me in the right direction Smilie

I have setup 2 Solaris10 machines in VMWare and I was following this guide I found:

Solaris: NIS installation and configuration - Basically Tech

After following that guide, I was able to create 1 NIS master server and my NIS client.

ypwhich points to the correct master server but when I do a ypcat hosts I get "RPC failure on yp operation"

now from what I read, this is related to not having ypbind running but I had performed ypbind -broadcast to get properly bounded on the client in order to get ypwhich correctly working.

when I perform ypmatch username passwd I get the correct information though and I've added more users on my master server and the information is correct when I perform ypmatch username passwd on my client.

This is where my problem lies... I was under the impression that ypmatch and ypcat both grab from the same map files from /var/yp/domainname

Any experts out there know what my problem might be?
Any specific config files you need me to post, I will gladly post them...

both my client and server are identical in respects to

hosts
defaultrouter
defaultdomain
nsswitch.conf
the Makefile is default on my master server

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I've talked to some friends and they don't really know what the problem is.

Thanks,
Erin

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ypwhich

ypwhich(1)						      General Commands Manual							ypwhich(1)

NAME

       ypwhich - return name of NIS server or map master

SYNOPSYS

       ypwhich [ -d domain ] [ -Vn ] [ hostname ]
       ypwhich [ -d domain ] [ -t ] -m [ mname ]
       ypwhich -x

DESCRIPTION

       ypwhich	returns  the  name of the NIS server that supplies the NIS services to a NIS client, or which is the master for a map.	If invoked
       without arguments, it gives the NIS server for the local machine. If hostname is specified, that machine is queried to find out	which  NIS
       master it is using.

OPTIONS

       -d domain
	      Specify a domain other than the default domain.

       -t     This option inhibits map nickname translation.

       -m mname
	      Find  the  master  NIS server for a map.	No hostname can be specified with the -m option.  mname can be a mapname or nickname for a
	      map.  If mname is omitted, ypwhich will produce a list of available maps.

       -x     Display the map nickname translation table.

       -Vn    Version of ypbind(8), V2 is default.

FILES

       /var/yp/nicknames
	      map nickname translation table.

SEE ALSO

       domainname(8), nicknames(5), ypbind(8), ypcat(1), ypmatch(1), yppoll(8), ypserv(8), yset(8)

AUTHOR

       ypwhich is part of the yp-tools package, which was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>.

YP Tools 2.7							     May 1998								ypwhich(1)

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