Re: informix with NIS

William J. Mitlyng (wmitlyng@xnet.com) wrote: : Most of the problems I have seen with NIS are related to configuration : issues. 951 gets thrown by bad yphosts tables. If you can go to your : server and nslookup the client by name and address and see the same : output from both (the fully qualified name with the complete address), actually we use DNS for name resolutions and the forward and reverse maps do match. The yp hosts and local hosts files match too. : you are most of the way to your goal. However, since you have other : servers that work from the same machine, are the errors thrown on client : machines that have success accessing 7.x? Are the users the same for : both servers? yes. we have several databses on the server running versions from 5.x to 7.x. different users access different databases from the clients. We did try accessing each of the databases from the same client machine as a DBA, and noticed that only the 5.x servers gave the 951 error if the user was not in /etc/passwd. thx -rr