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From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu ("J. Eric Townsend")
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: NIS on AIX 3.1 + SunOS 4.03c
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Date: 1 Feb 91 07:53:08 GMT
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Sigh...

We've got a YP sun network, and I decided that our RS/6000s should either
shape up or be turned into "one account" machines.

Unfortunately, no amount of coercion via smit seems to get NIS working.

Details:
Sun Side                   IBM side
Sparcs, 4.0.3 server       release 3002, on 320s.

netmask of network: 255.255.240.0 (heard this could be a problem, dunno
if it was rumor or true).

all da sparcs work         none of the nis configed IBMs are able to boot, even

So, we booted from floppy and turned off all of the NIS stuff...

Anybody got any quick clues?  I doubt it's flat-out *broken*, I'm guessing
there's some minor tweak somewhere that's needed.

--
J. Eric Townsend - jet@uh.edu - bitnet: jet@UHOU - vox: (713) 749-2120
"It is the cunning of form to veil itself continually in the evidence
of content.  It is the cunning of the code to veil itself and to produce
itself in the obviousness of value." -- Baudrillard