Hi Friends,

I configured NIS server in Fedora 9 and is working fine.

I configured NIS client in Ubuntu and it is able to bind the NIS server.

In my NIS client machine:
1) "ypcat passwd" is showing all users passwords in NIS server.
2) "id nisuser" is showing the uid, gid and group values.

But, I am unable to login to my client machine using NIS login user name.

Can anybody suggest me a solution?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Chandramouli

What does your /etc/nsswitch.conf file look like?

Hi, I could start a topic of my own, but it seems to me, this thread asks the same question I want to ask:

I have NIS client working on a Ubuntu Workstation
I have NIS server working on a Ubuntu Server

1) "ypcat passwd" is showing all users passwords in NIS server.

2) "id %NISUSER%" says: "id: %NISUSER%: unknown user"

But, I am unable to login to my client machine using NIS login user name.

I find it difficult to explain myself: I want after a reboot, the Workstation most ask for a username and password. I want to be able to provide my username and password of a user of the server and after that, I will be able to see my home directory (and some shares/ or what ever they are called in Linux). If I am a member of the group ICT, I want to be able to see the ICT share and have a desktopicon that is linked to the share.

I am used to Windows NT 4.0 (lets all point at me and laugh) with Windows NT server, workstation and a NT domain. Currently I have a Ubuntu Server which runs a samba server, so my Windows XP workstations can logon a NT domain of the samba server.

If somebody would tell me what I am doing wrong, please do.

I forgot the /etc/nsswitch.conf:

I am bumping this thread, because I still don't have an answer. I still have no clue what I have done wrong.

Hi,

Try to add nis beside the compat parameter...below is the example nsswitch config file on ubuntu client system:

passwd: compat nis
group: compat nis
shadow: compat nis

#hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] nis dns mdns4
networks: files

protocols: db files
services: db files
ethers: db files
rpc: db files

netgroup: nis

#--------------------------------------------

now test it with command:
root@red:~#yptest (you should see nis users list )
root@red:~# id test <test is the username on nisserver>

Regards,

Goutham T

I realise this is a little late, but after adding users to the NIS server or changing their passwords you need to go into /var/yp on the nis server and run make to rebuild the NIS database.

There's a nice clear NIS howto here: http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/w...onfiguring_NIS

Ok, thanx. I 'll read some more.