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About NIS+ NIS+ stands for Network Information Service Plus. It was designe

An Explanation of the Basic NIS+ Objects NIS+ objects are structural elements use

Debugging NIS+ Before trying to debug a NIS+ problem, you should always mak

Authentication Problems Most of the problems in NIS+ are authentication related p

Examining NIS+ Tables Some NIS+ problems will be related to information missing f

Using Snoop If you are having intermittent problems, snoop is often useful to

Performance Problems Some NIS+ problems may be related to performance. You might

How to Prepare Your Site for NIS+ Before configuring NIS+ namespace you need to d

How to Set Up a Root NIS+ Master To set up a root server, become the superuser on

How to Set Up a NIS+ Client To set up a NIS+ client, first become root on the mas

How to Set Up a Root NIS+ Replica After your root replica has been set up as a cl

How to Set Up a Subdomain NIS+ Master The subdomain server must already be setup

How to Set Up a Subdomain NIS+ Replica The same procedure as is described in S

How to Configure the Root Server for an IP Address Change The assumptions here are:

How to Add a User to the Admin Group In your default setup, only root on your mas

How to Change a NIS+ user passwd The passwd for a normal user can be changed by t

How to Change a NIS+ root passwd To change a root passwd, you MUST use the follow

How to Administer NIS+ Credentials The nisaddcred command can be used to create,

How to Administer NIS+ Groups The following commands may all be used to administe

How to Administer NIS+ Tables The nistbladm command is the primary NIS+ table adm

How to Examine NIS+ tables The niscat command displays the contents of NIS+ table

How to Modify NIS+ Tables NIS+ tables may be modified in a number of ways. One no

How to Regularly Administer NIS+ Depending on the updates one performs in the nam

How to Remove NIS+ If you wish to remove NIS+, you should run the following comma

How to define the printer table in NIS+ Run the following command, as root, to set up

How to fix NIS+ server breaks with Unable to Authenticate NIS+ server Kill and

How to promote a NIS+ root replica server to a root master server NOTE: I

How to dump the cred table You need to dump the cred table in two parts.

How do I backup/recover NIS+ directory objects. Starting with Solaris 2.6 t

Miscellaneous Questions Q1: What are the main features of NIS+? Q2: What new

NIS+ Setup Problems Q: Why does nisserver fail when I run it, as described in

User Login Problems Q: Why do I get the following error on login: "Pas

NIS+ Lookup Problems Q: Why do I get inconsistant results when I do certain NIS+

Patches The following is the list of all of the NIS+ patches for 5.3 and 5.4.

Solaris 2.3 NIS+ Patches 101318 SunOS 5.3: Jumbo patch for kernel (includes l

Solaris 2.4 NIS+ Patches 101945 SunOS 5.4: jumbo patch for kernel 10229

Solaris 2.6 NIS+ Patches 105562 SunOS 5.6: chkey and keylogin patch 105563

Solaris 7 Patches 107215 SunOS 5.7: /usr/sbin/rpc.nisd patch

Important Man Pages chkey keylogin newkey nis nis_cache

FAQs 1012 NIS+ questions

Infodocs 2216 NIS+ questions 11742 How to convert a NIS+ root replica

SRDBs 5816 fully qualified hostnames with NIS+ 5874 nis+ database rec

Sunsolve Documents There are a number of Sunsolve documents concerning NIS+

Sun Educational Services NIS+ concepts and administration offered by SUNED (conta

Solaris Documentation Name Services Administration Guide, part #801-6633-10 N

Third Party Documentation All About Administering NIS+, by Rick Ramsey, Prentice

RFCs There are no RFCs on NIS+. Send additions/correction