It s quite a while since I have worked on a NIS system but:
1. Does a:
work on the NIS master and NIS slave servers?
2. Is the client in the hosts file on the master (/etc/inet/hosts and hosts wherever you copied passwd, group and hosts to when setting up the NIS master)?
Hi everyone.
Has anyone here used AIX as a NIS client to a Linux server?
If have configured this setup and cant get it to work. I have verifyed that the NIS server is working since other machines are able to connect to it and users to log in on other clients.
On the AIX machine the users are... (0 Replies)
All,
I have just started using AIX (Solaris admin here) and I need to setup my new AIX box as an NIS client. Where would I do this?
Thanks for the help!
-Kevin (2 Replies)
Hi, all.
I have a Solaris client here needs to bind to NIS server in another subnet. Following is the configuration i made on the client,
1) edit /etc/inet/hosts to add an entry of the NIS server -- nserver01
2) execute `domainname` to set local NIS domain to the domain of the NIS server.... (1 Reply)
Friends n Gurus
I am creating an NIS farm(Solaris only) in my office. I have successfully configured the NIS master and slave servers and a few NIS clients.
However i am not able to log into a few of my NIS clients. The commands "ypcat passwd" is displaying the NIS user. However when i try to... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have a trouble with configure NIS Client on AIX, my NIS server is on a Linux machine.
After configure, some old NIS account could login normally. However, after I create new account from NIS server, I could not login with the new account, but could only su to that account. And I could view... (20 Replies)
Hi all,
Recently i have implemented NIS functionality in solaris 10 and i have created server and client with user in server side by giving
useradd -d /export/home/user1 -m -s /bin/sh user1
after that I went to /var/yp dir and give /usr/ccs/bin/make so that it will refelect to client... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
In my network infra, there is a NIS master server and many more NIS slave servers. Now, I want every client to set with master server and one possible slave server so that if master goes down, client could still get info from slave server. The servers will be listed on... (0 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a new server on the network, I did configure the NIS. ypwhich is working and ypcat all are working. But when I log in as me, home directory is not coming up. I looked at other servers we have at work to see what's under /etc/fstab. I don't see anything for home directory.
... (3 Replies)
I have a NIS Master server and NIS Clients.
But when I started the service all the process and files that should be owne by root apper by the owner 0
This is an example
0 1709 1708 0 10:06:10 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/nfsd 4
0 1710 1709 0 10:06:10 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/nfsd 4
0 1708 1 0 10:06:10 ? 0:00... (2 Replies)
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mknetid
MKNETID(8) NIS Reference Manual MKNETID(8)NAME
mknetid - generate data for netid map
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/yp/mknetid [-q] [-h hosts] [-p passwd] [-g group] [-d domain] [-n netid]
/usr/lib/yp/mknetid --version
DESCRIPTION
mknetid generates the netid.byname NIS map from the contents of the group(5), passwd(5), hosts(5) and netid files. It checks for multiple
entrys of netids and warn for them or filters them out. It is only called by /var/yp/Makefile when rebuilding the NIS map.
OPTIONS -q
This flag turns on 'quiet' mode, don't print a warning message when finding an duplicate netid entry.
-h hosts
The -h flag can be used to specify the use of another hosts file than the default /etc/hosts.
-p passwd
The -p flag can be used to specify the use of another passwd file than the default /etc/passwd.
-g group
The -g flag can be used to specify the use of another group file than the default /etc/group.
-n netid
The -n flag can be used to specify the use of another netid file than the default /etc/netid.
-d domain
The mknetid command uses the system domainname by default. If it is not set or you whish to override it, you must use the -d parameter.
--version
Prints the version number
FILES
/etc/group
groups file
/etc/hosts
hosts database
/etc/netid
netname database
/etc/passwd
password file
SEE ALSO passwd(8), group(5), hosts(5), passwd(5)AUTHOR
mknetid was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@linux-nis.org>.
NIS Reference Manual 09/26/2007 MKNETID(8)