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Hello,

>      What's the trick to getting my NetBSD system to act as a ypclient?
See below.

>   All I need to do is have domainname return the NIS/YP domain, yes ?
No.

> At least that is what the case seems to be by looking at 
> /etc/rc.d/ypbind.  I don't believe that I
> need to have ypserv started also, do I ?
No, ypserv only needs to run on the server.

I use an AIX box as YP/NIS server here, with a mixed bunch of clients 
(NetBSD, IRIX and Solaris). On NetBSD you have to do this:
- - hack /etc/nsswitch.conf to include NIS in user-, hostname-, group- 
and so on lookups.
- - add these things to /etc/rc.conf:
	domainname = "your_yp_domain"
	rpcbind=yes
	ypbind=yes
- - run ypinit -c
reboot. That should be enough. I'm not sure if you still need to put a 
+ into the last line of /etc/passwd though, probably not.

have fun
Michael
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