Hi Everyone, I "listen in" regularly and from time to time pick up some useful information relevant to my own situation.
I have a specific query regarding my first experiences setting up a NIS server and client. I have exhausted all available "immediate" resources trying to find a solution - but have been unable to find the answer to my problem. Situation: I have set up the NIS server as per RedHat "HOW-TO" info (along with some suggestions from instructions written by Prateek k Gupta on NIS/NIS+), and this seems(?) to be working (based upon things going as was suggested). I am running ypserv in debug mode. I set up the NIS client on the same pc, and ran ypbind in debug mode in another terminal. When changing between terminals, they seem to be "talking and listening" without problems. When running ypwhich and ypcat passwd, on the NIS client - all works as it should. Now - the problem: When setting up a NIS client on another PC on the same network (pinging all ok), I get an error regarding the Domain not being "bound" when ypbind is trying to work. There are then errors noted on the ypserv debug log. So the request is being "noticed" but there is some sort of problem?! :( What am I doing wrong? What things can I try? Any suggestions for resources in this area? (I have tried the internet and found one troubleshooting article - need more ideas though...) Any help would be really appreciated. Regards Liane.
