On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 16:04, Brian Fahrlander wrote: > I've been working with NIS for a while; I've gotten it to work > before, but this time between FC1 (client) and FC2 (server) it simply > refuses to cooperate. And several tens of hours Googling has gotten me > nowhere, regardless of keywords or languages. Try permutations of "NIS yppasswd howto" > Has anyone done this, and do you have a HOWTO you like for this? http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/NIS-HOWTO.html Other potential sources of issues interfering here: * firewalls (system-config-security, shorewall) * /etc/nsswitch.conf * /var/yp/Makefile. Ralf