1. Kill NIS+ or yp 2. rm -rf /var/nis/* or /var/yp/binding/ 3. cp /etc/nsswitch.files /etc/nsswitch.conf 4. check or cp /etc/init.d/autofs.orig /etc/init.d/autofs 5. Change domainame and /etc/defaultdomain 6. on ds002 ((@1166 ds001)(or NIS+ master do nisclient -c )) Will return a string that you need to run on client. Now you are done.