Do you have rpcbind=YES ? I think NIS makes use of that.

Regards
Nigel

On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 12:29:41AM +0100, Juergen Tritthardt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to connect to a SGI file server via NFS with a NetBSD-1.5 system.
> 
> First step seems to be setting up NIS. I putted the NIS-domainname in
> /etc/defaultdomain configured ypbind=yes in /rc.conf and got 
> 
> 	ypbind: Unable to register (YPBINDPROG, YPBINDVERS, udp).
> 
> during startup.
> 
> We have here two NIS-domains, so to be sure that my system connects to the
> right server I putted the servername in a file called 
> 
> 	/var/yp/binding/"my.domain.name".ypserver
> 
> and that name with ip in /etc/hosts. Same result. Any hints?
> 
> 
> 	Greetings
> 	Jürgen Tritthardt
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