[THIN] Re: OT: NIS services for Windows

hey Spencer... was it you that was moving to England for a new job?  if so,
hows it going? are we looking after you?

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Sent: 30 March 2005 16:30
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Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: NIS services for Windows


Thanks, Neil and all.

We found out it was bad communication somewhere on our part.  We had
the wrong subnet mask configured on the AD box.  As we had set NIS to
use broadcast, these servers could not talk even though they were on
the same subnet (or so we thought!).

Feeling foolish, 

Spencer


On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:34:22 +0100, Braebaum, Neil
<Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> No, but I have some experience of (pretty much) the reverse - getting
> UNIX platforms to authenticate straight to AD.
> 
> Probably doesn't help you much, though...
> 
> Neil
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Spencer Sun
> > Sent: 30 March 2005 13:46
> > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [THIN] OT: NIS services for Windows
> >
> > Has anyone had any experience working with NIS for Windows?
> > This is a component of the Services for Unix, running on
> > Windows 2003, in our case.
> >
> > We are working on a MPSU 1.2 farm for a client and are trying
> > to implement a NIS domain with a 2003 AD as the master NIS
> > server.  For a little while last night, we were able to do a
> > ypcat passwd and see all of the users that were mapped.
> > Today, we can't even ypbind to that domain.  This is from
> > Solaris 8 servers.  We've moved the Solaris box to a Solaris
> > NIS server and that works a treat.  But, when we re-connect
> > it to the AD NIS server, it won't bind to the domain.
> >
> > Any tips or pointers to look at would be greatly appreciated.
> 
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