NIS and Linux

on July 9, 2014, 10:09 a.m.

Remember to set the domainname for nis in /etc/defaultdomain or else ypbind will fail to bind if your machine domain.

echo 'yourdomain' > /etc/defaultdomain
chkconfig rpcbind on
chkconfig ypbind on
domainname yourdomain
service ypbind start
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