[CentOS] NIS problems

[John Allen]

When you do the ypinit -s, what name do you provide for the server?

It must match the name the server expects, so if the server host name is 
nis, then you
do

ypinit -s nis.domainname

Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, sam wrote:
>
>> so...
>>
>> if i'm understanding:
>>
>> -you have a 32bit NIS server that you've
>
> Correction here - server is 64-bit RHEL 5 Server.   All machines are 
> full, out-of-box, unpatched systems, with no Internet connection.
>
> Working clients are 32-bit.   Problem machine is 64-bit CentOS 5 client.
>
>>  configured for your network.
>> -you are not running dns, but are instead using /etc/hosts,
>>  and /etc/resolv.conf on your boxes
>> -you have a couple of 32bit clients that can attach to the
>>  NIS server, and that you can log against. you can run
>>  'ypcat passwd' on these machines with no issues..
>>
>> -attaching a 64bit machine as a NIS Client which you've
>>  configured as best you can, is giving you errors...
>>
>> I just had a conversation with a Sr. Redhat Tech support eng, where 
>> he was
>> telling me that there might be an issue with my situation that might be
>> related to the fact that the server is 64 bit, and the slave is 32bit...
>>
>> might not be related.... but hmm...
>>
>> can you post your ypserv.conf, as well as your yp.conf files
>>
>
>
> I'll have to check on my ypserv.comf file - I don't recall having 
> edited that.
>
> yp.conf on the server is:
> ypserver 127.0.0.1
>
> yp.conf on the client is:
> domain my-nis-domain server ip-of-server
>
> Scott
>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org]On
>> Behalf Of Scott Ehrlich
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 3:58 PM
>> To: CentOS mailing list
>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] NIS problems
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Clint Dilks wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Scott Ehrlich wrote:
>>>> I've got a RHEL5 server acting as a NIS/NFS server, and connected 
>>>> one C5
>>>> machine just fine.
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to connect another, and for the life of me, cannot 
>>>> figure out
>>>> why NIS won't bind.  NFS works fine.  ypbind just hangs.  I disabled
>>>> SELinux and the firewall.   I just cannot get it to bind.
>>>>
>>>> Ideas?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi do you have the appropriate entry in /etc/hosts for ypserv on NIS
>> Server ?
>>
>> Yep.  This is on a small lan - /etc/hosts acts as local dns.
>>
>> The error is the one when ypinit -s server hasn't been run.   I've 
>> had two
>> successful runs on 32-bit C5 adding said 32-bit hosts to the network, 
>> but
>> this one 64-bit C5 system is giving me the NIS problems.  I can ssh, 
>> ping,
>> and doing anything else I want.  Again, the 32-bit hosts work fine 
>> against
>> the server.   This one 64-bit machine is simply giving me the NIS
>> headaches.
>>
>> Thanks for any/all ideas.
>>
>> Scott
>>
>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Scott
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