[wplug] nis on redhat 7.3

[Jonathan Billings]

Do you have the proper entry in /etc/nsswitch.conf for passwd, and the 
other services you want to use NIS?

Jonathan


On Saturday, November 16, 2002, at 05:16  PM, John Harrold wrote:

>
> ok this seems really silly.
>
> i just got a stack of new computers in. i configure the domainname and
> ypbind starts right up. i can use ypcat and verify the maps are 
> correct.
> but the computer doesn't seem to be "using" the info from nis. so when 
> i
> try to su to a user it says that the user doesn't exsist. autofs isnt
> picking up on any of the file systems that are being exported via the 
> nis
> server. obviously i'm  forgetting something here.
>
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