[Techtalk] NFS and NIS issues: RH 8.0 - UPDATE

[Gina Lanik]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 10:58:40AM -0500, Caitlyn M. Martin wrote:
> I have the NFS issue fixed.  It was a firewall issue on the client box. 
> (Stupid!  I should have thought of that one right away.)
> 
> The NIS issue is still a problem.
> 
> > I have a Red Hat Linux 8.0 box called otto -- the one I wrote about
> > before that seems to bind just fine to the NIS server (Solaris 8) but
> > then can't authenticate via NIS and seems to not stay bound.  I still
> > have no idea why that is happening.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas here?

Could you give a little bit more information about your setup/config?
 From what you wrote I gather you do basic user authentication with NIS -
anything else? Did you check the ypserv/ypbind processes?

Cheers,

Gina
-- 
"The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is
probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners" -- Ernst Jan Plugge
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