# autofs domain name not set

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**Category:** SLES Networking\
**Created:** [December 9, 2015, 10:54pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/autofs-domain-name-not-set/27704 "2015-12-09T22:54:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![mikenash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@mikenash](https://forums.suse.com/u/mikenash)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 10:54pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/autofs-domain-name-not-set/27704/1 "2015-12-09T22:54:17Z")

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Received the following message: automount[1662]: lookup\_init:136: lookup(yp): map auto.master: Local domain name not set

`cat /etc/sysconfig/network/config | grep NETCONFIG_NIS_SETDOMAINNAME
NETCONFIG_NIS_SETDOMAINNAME="yes"
domainname
(none)`  
How do you set the domainname?

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**Author:** ![smflood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/smflood/32/10576_2.png) [@smflood](https://forums.suse.com/u/smflood)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2015, 12:41am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/autofs-domain-name-not-set/27704/2 "2015-12-10T00:41:53Z")

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mikenash Wrote in message:  
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> Received the following message: automount[1662]: lookup\_init:136:  
> lookup(yp): map auto.master: Local domain name not set
> 
> ## Code:
> 
> ```
> cat /etc/sysconfig/network/config | grep NETCONFIG_NIS_SETDOMAINNAME
> 
> ```
> 
> ## NETCONFIG\_NIS\_SETDOMAINNAME=“yes” domainname (none)
> 
> How do you set the domainname?[/color]

The easy way is to add a single line to /etc/defaultdomain.

## HTH.

Simon Flood  
SUSE Knowledge Partner

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**Author:** ![mikenash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@mikenash](https://forums.suse.com/u/mikenash)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2015, 3:55pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/autofs-domain-name-not-set/27704/3 "2015-12-10T15:55:44Z")

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Good morning Simon, thank you for this reply.