thanks to the following:
Albert White - SUN Ireland Ireland Albert White - SUN
albert.white@ireland.sun.com
Anthony Worrall Worrall Anthony
anthony.worrall@reading.ac.uk
Brooke King King Brooke bking@mail.yipes.com
Bruce R. Zimmer Zimmer Bruce R. isdfgbrz@all-phase.com
Cathy Smith Smith Cathy csmith4@ftw.mot.com
Dan.Liebster@chase.com Dan.Liebster@chase.com
Daniel Polombo Polombo Daniel
daniel.polombo@detexis.thomson-csf.com
Darren Dunham Dunham Darren ddunham@taos.com
David Evans Evans David daevans@us.Oracle.com
David Foster Foster David foster@dim.ucsd.edu
G.Saravana Muthu Muthu G.Saravana saravana@cdacb.ernet.in
Jeff Woolsey Woolsey Jeff woolsey@jlw.com
Matthew Stier Stier Matthew Matthew.Stier@fnc.fujitsu.com
mike.salehi@kodak.com mike.salehi@kodak.com
Moti Levy Levy Moti mlevy@lannet.com
Sean Quaint Quaint Sean squaint@mediaone.net
Stuart, Reggie (GXS, Maxim) Maxim) Stuart, Reggie (GXS,
Reggie.Stuart@gxs.ge.com
I did get confused between NIS and NIS+; I am also new to Solaris.
thanks esp to Moti Levy for giving the exact commands for setting up
NIS
Setting a solaris nis client
brodcast mode:
1.domainname your-domain
2.domainname > /etc/defaultdomain
3./usr/lib/netsvc/yp/ypbind
4.cp /etc/nsswitch.nis /etc/nsswitch.conf
ypset mode:
1.domainname your-domain
2.domainname > /etc/defaultdomain
3.mkdir /var/yp/binding/your-domain
4.echo "your-nis-server-name" > /var/yp/binding/your-domain/ypservers
5.add the nis server to the clients hosts file
6.ypinit -c - answer the questions .
7./usr/lib/netsvc/yp/ypbind
8.cp /etc/nsswitch.nis /etc/nsswitch.conf
Sridhar
------------------------------------------------------------
Original Question:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to setup our E450 as a NIS cleint, the server being a DEC
> Alpha machine. We have only single name for the NIS domain (it has
> nothing to do with the DNS domain that these machines are on). I have
> successfully setup other SGI machines as clients but when I try that on
> E450 (solaris7),
>
> nisclient -i -h hostname -a IPnumber -d domainname
>
> it expects the domainname to have atleast two components separated by a
> period. Can I just make one up for this machine only? If not how can I
> force it to take the single name I type.
>
> thanks
> SS
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