I recently had to enable NIS on my FC5 box. It was rather painful. Nowhere near as direct and simple as it ought to be. I'm anxious to hear how a Fedora guru would go about configuring and running NIS (as a client) on a box that was not originally configured to do so. What I did was somehow discover that running authconfig-gtk would be a good thing. This was after I yummed ypbind, configured /etc/ypconf and started the ypbind service using the services gui tool, which then proceeded to "hang" (no response other than the wait cursor for many, many minutes). Then I disabled selinux and the firewall and still no joy. Only after running authconfig-gtk did NIS startup. So authconfig clearly knows to do something that I am not aware of. I hate when that happens. :-) But then my system got rebooted and NIS did not restart even though the ypbind service was configured to restart. So I need to figure out what authconfig knows that I don't know and how to set things up to have NIS running after a reboot. -pmr
