NFS Services Administrator's Guide

NIS+ Error Messages
Appendix A374
This message indicates that you used an invalid group name while trying
to configure a root master server. Rerun nisserver -r with a valid
group name for root-domain.
**ERROR: invalid name “client-name” It is neither an host nor an user
name.
This message indicates that you typed an invalid client name.
•If the client-name was spelled incorrectly, rerun nisclient -c
with the correct client-name.
•If the client-name was spelled correctly, but it does not exist in the
hosts or passwd table, put the client name into the hosts or passwd
table and rerun nisclient -c.
**ERROR: hostname is a master server for this domain. You cannot
demote a master server to replica. If you really want to demote this
master, you should promote a replica server to master using nisserver
with the -M option.
You cannot directly convert a master server to a replica server of the
same domain. You can, however, change a replica to be the new master
server of a domain by running nisserver -M with the replica host name
as the new master. This automatically makes the old master a replica.
**ERROR: missing hostnames or usernames.
This messages indicates that you did not type the client names on the
command line. Rerun nisclient -c with the client names.
**ERROR: NIS+ group name must end with a “.”
This message indicates that you did not specify a fully qualified group
name ending with a period. Rerun the script with a fully qualified group
name.