[CentOS] NIS problems
Scott Ehrlich
scott at MIT.EDU
Thu Oct 18 14:17:37 UTC 2007
An interesting sidenote -
Things do work fine on another test setup consisting of C5 64-bit and an
Intel NIC. The problem C5 64-bit system has a Broadcom 57xx NIC.
I may opt to change NICs and see if that makes any difference...
Scott
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, John Allen wrote:
> 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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