On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Nigel Reed wrote:

> Do you have rpcbind=3DYES ? I think NIS makes use of that.

No, but after doing that ypbind works. :-)

Now I have a problem with mount_nfs, but I'm afraid that could not be
solved on this list (permission denied). I thick my host is not yet
allowed to mount that volume.


=09Thank you
=09Juergen


> On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 12:29:41AM +0100, Juergen Tritthardt wrote:
> > Hi,
> >=20
> > I need to connect to a SGI file server via NFS with a NetBSD-1.5 system=
=2E
> >=20
> > First step seems to be setting up NIS. I putted the NIS-domainname in
> > /etc/defaultdomain configured ypbind=3Dyes in /rc.conf and got=20
> >=20
> > =09ypbind: Unable to register (YPBINDPROG, YPBINDVERS, udp).
> >=20
> > during startup.
> >=20
> > 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=20
> >=20
> > =09/var/yp/binding/"my.domain.name".ypserver
> >=20
> > and that name with ip in /etc/hosts. Same result. Any hints?
> >=20
> >=20
> > =09Greetings
> > =09J=FCrgen Tritthardt
> > --=20
> > J=FCrgen Tritthardt              Max-Planck-Institut f=FCr med. Forschu=
ng
> > Tel. 06221/486279                          Abt. Biomedizinische Optik
> > Fax. 06221/486225                       Jahnstr. 29, 69120 Heidelberg
>=20
> --=20
>=20
>=20

=09Mit freundlichen Gr=FC=DFen
=09J=FCrgen Tritthardt
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J=FCrgen Tritthardt              Max-Planck-Institut f=FCr med. Forschung
Tel. 06221/486279                          Abt. Biomedizinische Optik
Fax. 06221/486225                       Jahnstr. 29, 69120 Heidelberg