NIS user directory stuck with numerical UID instead of alphabetic naming convention

[Randy_9]

My NIS client ( ypbound to an AIX slave ) seems
to pick up only the numeric UID in a long listing for a NIS user instead of the user's name?. Any idea, it occurs on all of my HP clients bound to this slave server?

Thanks,

Randy

[Randy_9]

NOTE:
Slave server and client in different subnet
than the NIS server. Clients in the same
subnet pick up the users name instead of the
numerical value in a long listing.

Randy

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Does ypcat passwd work normally?

If so, I would tend to suspect stale entries in the pwgrd. Do a ps -ef | grep pwgrd. If it is running kill it -- the machine will run fine without it so you might consider disabling this daemon.

[Randy_9]

Clay,

I can see the NIS maps no problem ( ypcat ), the daemon was running and I killed it. But
when I logon as the user it still picks up just the numerical value for the UID ( not for the group ). Odd thing, is that I can logon on as any other user and the UID is the
actual name of the user. Weird... again, on the same subnet as the server it picks up the UID correctly for the user ID that is giving me problems.

Randy

[Randy_9]

Clay,

A rebuild of the maps on the AIX slave server, corrected the problem. Thanks for your help!

Randy