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 >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> CentOS mailing list >>>>> CentOS at centos.org >>>>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >>>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> CentOS mailing list >>>> CentOS at centos.org >>>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS mailing list >>> CentOS at centos.org >>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS mailing list >>> CentOS at centos.org >>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> > > > -- > John Allen mailto:john.allen at codemountain.net > CodeMountain http://www.codemountain.net > > Ubuntu 7.04, kernel 2.6.20-16-generic > up 6 days, 23:51, 16 users, load average: 0.98, 0.88, 0.95 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >