In a local network, where a NIS server and some NIS clients are correctly working, a new installed ubuntu 12.04.3 machine seems not to like NIS. When NIS is not installed the network drive is mounted correctly on that machine, I have web access and so on. If I install nis on this machine, and do the following tasks

  • set the right dominion /etc/defaultdomain -> XXXXXX)
  • check that nis is included in /etc/nsswitch.conf
  • add the following line to the file /etc/pam.d/common-auth
  • auth optional pam_group.so

nothing works anymore: when I reboot, the lightdm doesn't start, a shell shows the message "mountall disconnected from plymouth", no network user can login, and only the local user can login, but it is veeeery slow.
Any idea?
Thank you!