topic Re: NIS Slave server and Client in Operating System - HP-UX

NIS Slave server and Client

Sachin Patel_2 — Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:05:04 GMT

Hi
I have system which is client in domain1. I want to set this same system as
slave server for different domain. Both domains are on same network.

When I did ypinit -s "sarver" DOM="domain2" I did not get any error it create
directory with all maps.

Then When I try to run ypserv and ypxfr it says "directory /var/yp/domain1 is
not exist or maps for domain1 is missing. And I want to set this system as
slave for domian2.

Thanks
Sachin

Re: NIS Slave server and Client

Alan Riggs_1 — Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:28:14 GMT

My understanding is that a machine can be active in only one NIS domain at a
time. The bindings are generally set at boot time. You can recycle yp
services and repoint the machine to domain2, but I do not believe it is
possible to have the machine active in both domains at once.

Re: NIS Slave server and Client

Sharon Bi_4 — Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:47:42 GMT

Yes, I agree with Alan.

Just checked the documentation of HP-UX training material. It says:

" Each node can belong to a maximum of ONE domain ".

Re: NIS Slave server and Client

Jason Luginbuhl_1 — Tue, 21 Mar 2000 12:33:33 GMT

Sharon and Alan are correct. Only one domain at a time. This client when booted
was probably assigned the original domain. You can check this by executing the
domainname command. I imagine that this will return the original domain. You
should be able to change the DOMAIN variable in /etc/rc.config.d/namesvrs to be
the new domain and then restart the NIS services to rebind under the new
domain:

# /sbin/init.d/nis.client stop
# /sbin/init.d/nis.client start

Re: NIS Slave server and Client

Sachin Patel_2 — Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:11:07 GMT

Then why book says you can have a server may be a master for one domain and a
slave of another. what about Multi-master relationships

Sachin