I pretty much followed the O'Reilly book "Managing NFS and NIS" to set up 
a NIS server. It seemed close enough.

Are you wanting to set up just a NIS client or a server as well? 

for the client only setup, basically you create a file
"/etc/defaultdomain" which has your NIS domain in it.  Then turn on the
NIS daemons in /etc/rc.conf like:

# YP (NIS) daemons
ypbind=YES              ypbind_flags=""
ypserv=NO               ypserv_flags="-d"
yppasswdd=NO            yppasswdd_flags=""


you'll want to take a look at nsswitch.conf(5) and perhaps resolv.conf(5).

-Dan

On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Matt Bell wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is there any good doc's out there on how to set up NIS for netbsd? 
> 
> -Matt
>