Brent Killion writes:
Just to help us isolate the problem between OS and NIS, we initialized a Solaris 2.6 system, as a NIS slave to the Solaris 8 NIS server that we couldn't get the filers to bind to. Surprisingly, the FAS960c bound with no problems to the Solaris 2.6 NIS slave. To us, this rules out a configuration issue with the NIS domain itself and focuses the problem back to an apparent Solaris 8 NIS/DataONTAP incompatibility.
I was somewhat surprised that no one replied that they are using Solaris 8 NIS with DataONTAP. I have updated the tech support case I have opened with both Sun and NetApp and I'll keep the list informed as the solution moves along.
We are using Solaris 8 for our NIS slaves. Our filers are running 6.2.1R2D2 (F760, F840, F880, no clustering).
We have the NIS patch 110511 installed on our slaves, in versions ranging from 01 to 05. I don't think we've seen any NIS trouble with our configuration.