The problem is that I don't have root.<BR>I have reasonable access - I can run most programs. smbmount only works in linux, does it not? <BR>The hoped-for result would be to be able to save directly ...

The Solaris machine in question is simply a client, not a server. I have a Linux file server also doing NIS, and the Solaris box has no problems binding to the NIS domain (ypcat, ypwhich, etc. all ...