[CentOS] NIS problems

Thu Oct 18 02:50:35 UTC 2007
Scott Ehrlich <scott at MIT.EDU>

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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