Non-Sun NIS clients have problems with NIS+ NIS Compatibility.

2007-12-25 9:34:00

My Original Post:

>Can non-Sun NIS servers ypxfr maps from Sun NIS+ Root servers?

>We would like to run our NIS+ Root server in NIS Compatibility mode so

>that an HP NIS server can get the tables via ypxfr. We have several HP-UX

>9.01 clients (and some DEC OSF/Ultrix machines) that seem to want to stay bound

>to the HP-UX NIS "replica" server (strange things happen when they

>"bind" to NIS+ NIS compatible Sun servers).

>But, ypxfr on the HP complains that these "maps" don't exist:

> group.bygid,

> passwd.bygid

> hosts.byname.

>Any hope of this configuration working? How are you mixing

>your "legacy" non-Sun NIS client machines with NIS+ ?

We've switched from NIS+ to the Solaris NIS software known as NISKit

(version 1.2). It is now shipped with the Solaris 2.5 CDs (but

this version works on 2.4). For all the details see:

NISKit allows us to have "true" NIS servers on Solaris which can

perform ypxfr to specified non-Sun YP slave servers.

Many thanks to:

The Sun Support Engineers.

casper@holland.Sun.COM.

--Karl

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