NFS Services Administrator's Guide

NIS+ Error Messages
Appendix A 371
**ERROR: domainname does not exist.
This message indicates that you are trying to replicate a domain that
does not exist. If domainname is spelled incorrectly, rerun the script with
the correct domain name.
**ERROR: parent-domain does not exist.
This message indicates that the parent domain of the domain you typed
on the command line does not exist. This message should appear only
when you are setting up a non-root master server.
• If the domain name is spelled incorrectly, rerun the script with the
correct domain name.
• If the domain’s parent domain does not exist, you have to create the
parent domain first, and then you can create this domain.
**ERROR: Don’t know about the domain “domainname”. Please check
your domainname.
This message indicates that you typed an unrecognized domain name.
Rerun the script with the correct domain name.
**ERROR: failed dumping tablename table.
The script was unable to populate the cred table because the script did
not succeed in dumping the tablename table.
•If niscat tablename.org_dir fails, make sure that all the servers
are operating, then rerun the script to populate the tablename table.
•If niscat tablename.org_dir is working, the error may have been
caused by the NIS+ server being temporarily busy. Rerun the script
to populate the tablename table.
**ERROR: host hostname is not a valid NIS+ principal in domain
domainname. This host hostname must be defined in the credential table
in domain domainname. Use nisclient -c to create the host credential
A machine has to be a valid NIS+ client with proper credentials before it
can become an NIS+ server. To convert a machine to an NIS+ root replica
server, the machine first must be an NIS+ client in the root domain.
Before you can convert a machine to an NIS+ non-root master or a
replica server, the machine must be an NIS+ client in the parent domain
of the domain that it plans to serve. See “To Set Up NIS+ Replica
Servers” on page 222.