brian@natinst.com (Brian H. Powell) (12/12/88)
I'm no YP wizard, so maybe this is easy and somebody can tell me how to do what I want to do. We've got a couple of YP domains that handle different data. Let's call them domain A and domain B. Domain A is a plain old YP domain. For this exercise, consider that it has a ypmaster and a diskless client (which boots off of the yp master.) Domain B has the usual YP information, but it also includes some YP information for some third party software that only exists on the Suns in domain B. The passwd, group, etc., files are very different from domain A, but with a lot of work I could probably suffer to have them the same across the entire network. I want to make one change; I want the diskless client in domain A to have access to the third-party info found only in domain B. (1) The ideal state would be for there to be one ypmaster for passwd, group, etc., and another ypmaster for the third-party info. Any hope of doing this, or is this the major shortcoming of YP? (2) Is it possible for the diskless sun to be in domain B, but boot off a Sun in domain A? Do I just have to make bootparams and ethers correct in domain B? Thanks for any assistance. Brian H. Powell National Instruments Corp. brian@natinst.com 12109 Technology Blvd. uunet!cs.utexas.edu!natinst!brian Austin, Texas 78727-6204 AppleLink:D0351 (512) 250-9119 x832