[Sunhelp] NIS Help

[Nicholas Dronen]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 08:34:40AM -0700, Balaji srinivasan wrote:
> Hi Admins,
>            Request your help for this newbie admin on NIS.
> We have a master NIS server and many nis clients. A new client is being
> added to our network. It's a another Sun SParc station. I have updated the
> /etc/nsswitch.conf file so that nis is used. I have also updated the
> /etc/hosts file with nis master server entry and entry for few other
> servers. ypbind is running,ypwhich returns the master name properly. But
> when I do a ypcat hosts I don't find my new client entry in it. I have
> updated my new client's entry in the master servers /etc/hosts. Is there
> anything I should do to have the master server update its db?.

It sounds like you need to remake your YP maps.

Regards,

Nick Dronen