The home is not mounted using NIS on Solaris 10

Hi,
In a system with Solaris 10 - Sparc , when I do : " su - nomeuser" the home is not mounted an I obtain the message:
"su: Unknown id: nomeuser"
but if I do "ypcat passwd | grep nomeuser" I obtain the information about "nomeuser" .
Anyone have any idea which could be the problem ?
Thank you in advance,
Luz

Thanks for your answer,
Yes I use the NIS, but I had forgot to see the file nisswitch.conf , and there wasn't the entry "fnis" for look up :
passwd: files nis
I inserted the entry "nis" in the file for passwd, hosts, networks, protocols,rpc, etc.
Now when I did "su - nomeuser" I obtained the message:
su: No directory !
The directoy is not mounted.
How I remebered that I haven't done restart of network's process then I did reboot of machine, but after that the network didn't work more.
Then I copied the file /etc/nsswitch.nis in nsswitch.conf and add the entry dns a "hosts" ===> hosts: files dns nis
And now work :-) ,
Many thanks again,
Luz Marina

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