ok.. I have a nice shiny new NIS server, debian potato, all setup, and happy. (this is a major upgrade from the SunOS 4.1.4 box :) everything transfered smothly, and the clients are allready switched over to the new server, but the only problem i've found so far is yppasswd. the server is running yppasswdd, and it's supposedly working, but none of the clients seem to think so: yppasswd: yppasswdd not running on NIS master host that's no fun :( Thank You, Ben Kochie (ben at nerp.net) "Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends."