say, i am finally getting around to installing the NIS server... now the server seems to be installing fine (at least acording to the HOWTO) and it is up and running but the YP client does not want to work... here is a snipping: <SNIP> [nassarmu at palpatine nassarmu]$ ypcat passwd No such map passwd.byname. Reason: Can't bind to server which serves this domain </SNIP> and here is when i run ypbind -debug it just sits there doing the ping for a minute or so... and then it tries again... <SNIP> [root at palpatine nassarmu]# /sbin/ypbind -debug parsing config file Trying entry: ypserver palpatine parsed ypserver palpatiimnimpleiit gt g add_server() domain: palpatine.lab406.com, host: palpatine, nobroadcast, slot: 0[Welcome to ypbind-mt, version 1.7] ping host 'palpatine', domain 'palpatine.lab406.com' Pinging all active server. ping host 'palpatine', domain 'palpatine.lab406.com' Signal (2) for quitting program arrived. </SNIP> anybody here know why it would do this? anybody come across this before? -munir ===== -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GAT GIT dpu- s:- a19 C++ UL P+ L+(++) E--- W+ N+ w(--) K? O-- M- V- PS+ PE-(--) Y-- PGP-(---) t 5+++ X R tv-- b+++ D++ DI++ G e+ h+() r- y+ UF++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/