Sparc Solaris NIS client Linux NIS server

I'm cross posting this from comp.unix.solaris in hopes
that the linux admins can help or have had similiar
experience.

Sunfire V240 Solaris 8 02/04. I've configured it as a
nis client. I logon as root (local account). Verify that it sees
the nis master (ypwhich), verified that it can cat the hosts file
(ypcat hosts), verified that it can see the passwd file (ypcat
passwd). These all work. I have also the ability to (when logged
in as root) su - <username> and become a user (whereas the user
is a NIS user with account information and home directory on the
Linux NIS server). What I cant do is logon via the CDE logon
screen. I get the "incorrect logon" error.

I've ran ethereal to check the connection and the closest anomaly
I found was that when logging on the Solaris box via CDE it is not sending
the logon credentials to the Linux NIS server, therefore not getting a response
back that its a valid logon. Now, this isnt the end. I also ran
ethereal against a telnet session to the solaris box, and I did see
it send the username over the wire to the NIS server, but again
got an incorrect logon error.

Has anyone seen this?? I'm thinking a patch or something since the
sparc is freshly built with no patches.

TIA again
dogdog
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