John Oliver wrote:
> I'm dealing with an old Red Hat 7.3 machine that's been using NIS for
> authentication.  The NIS server is going to be retired... there's a
> Windows AD server that we use now via LDAP.  I know... :-)  This mostly
> works pretty well.  On this one machine, though, after inputting my
> username I wait about a minute for the password prompt to appear, and
> then another good minute or two for a command prompt.
> 
> After I'm logged in, everything is fine.  This machine is on a different
> subnet than the AD server and the NIS server.  There are other servers
> on the same subnet that are able to authenticate to the LDAP server OK,
> so I'm doubting it's a network issue.  There are other Red Hat 7.3
> machines that are OK, so I doubt it's an issue with a specific
> RPM-installed file, although this or the other machine smight have
> received/not received a particular update.
> 
> Any suggestions?

maybe(?): dns/reverse-dns issues? Does the NIS server have the (correct)
   dns info on the client?

Regards,
..jim


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