[Techtalk] [OT] NIS problems on legacy Solaris 1.1.2 systems

[distantnorth at netscape.net]

Hi, everyone,

I'm hoping that someone has been doing UNIX long enough and has a good enough memory to help me with some legacy Solaris 1.1.2/SunOS 4.1.4 systems which are absolutely driving me nuts.  (Oh, and no, I can't upgrade them because of a legacy app.  Believe me, if I could I would.)

Anyway, these boxes arrived from a now closed office and I thought this was simply a matter of giving them new IP addresses.  Silly me.  I did run /usr/etc/install/sys-unconfig and then go through a manual configuration.  At first they wouldn't communicate at all.  I took some hard coding of netmask and broadcast address a previous admin had done in /etc/rc.local, added an appropriate line to let this ancient pre-CIDR version know that our address really was class C in /etc/netmasks, did put the NIS master and slave in /etc/hosts.equiv, did put appropriate entries in /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/defaultdomain, and /etc/defaultrouter.  The net result is that the box is now up on the network and resolving fine through DNS.  The minute I try to put it back into the NIS domain is when I run into trouble.  It won't see the NIS master and won't see the domain.  This despite the fact that I can communicate with the NIS master and slave just fine via telnet, ftp, ping, etc...

(Yes, I know what I just described is a security nightmare.  I'll address that soon enough.)

What am I missing?  What stupid little Solaris 1.1.x trick do I not know?  This is my first exposure to the ancient BSD-based Solaris and it hasn't been a happy experience so far.

Any ideas are muchly appreciated.

All the best,
Caity
(who is just fine with Solaris 2.x, 7, 8, and 9)

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