My original post was a mess. Here it is again: Hi, everyone, I wrote about legacy SparcStation 5 and 10 systems running Solaris 1.1.2/SunOS 4.1.4 systems which arrived from a now closed office and needed new IP addresses. I did run /usr/etc/install/sys-unconfig and then go through a manual configuration. At first they wouldn't communicate at all. I took some hard coding of netmask and broadcast address a previous admin had done in /etc/rc.local, added an appropriate line to /etc/netmasks, did put the NIS master and slave in /etc/hosts.equiv, did put appropriate entries in /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/defaultdomain, and /etc/defaultrouter. The net result is that the box is now up on the network and resolving fine through DNS. The minute I try to put it back into the NIS domain is when I run into trouble. It won't see the NIS master and won't see the domain. This despite the fact that I can communicate with the NIS master and slave just fine via telnet, ftp, ping, etc... ---- Suggestions included: > >You may want to be a bit more precise about "won't see the master" etc. At boot ypbind starts, it then tries to start the RPC keyserver and hangs with a repeated message: NIS: Can't find server for domain "<domainname>"; still trying It will never successfully boot into multiuser mode at that point. I can boot in single user mode, disable NIS, and then it will boot up fine. After doing so: >Is it failing to bind? No. Actually the rpc keryserver was the failure point. > what does ypwhich show? It did show the master server once I got ypbind running :) > You may want to run etherfind, > which is the sunos 4.x equivalent of snoop, to see what the > machine is doing. It showed the normal, expected traffic. ---- > Try doing a ypinit -c so that they know who the master server is. ypinit -c came up as an invalid option. ---- Got it! I added a ypbind -ypsetme command to /etc/rc.local and a ypset command to the IP address of the master. It booted properly and ypinit -s ran fine. I then edited out the additions from /etc/rc.local Regards, Caity __________________________________________________________________ McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free trial today! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp?promo=393397 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455 _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Oct 7 14:47:19 2003
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