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I have a Solaris 8 NIS Server and a few Solaris workstations. These computers are working fine with NIS.
I want to install a Linux workstation and to add it to the network in the same NIS domain but I get "Domain not bound" message. When I boot this machine, I get "Listening for NIS Server" Failed.
To install the NIS Client on this machine I used Linuxconf program. I tried to use install the client using files (/etc/yp.conf, nsswitch.conf) but the same. When I run "rpcinfo -p localhost" I get a correct output (how I found on HOWTO NIS Linux paper). If I run domainname I get the NIS domain name. If I try to uase ypwhich command I get "can't yp_bind: Reason: Domain not bound".
I'm running NIS. In /etc/yp.conf threre are the NIS domainname and server too.
If on Linux client, ypbind service is not running at boot and I try to start after the server is up I receive the mesage that NIS domain and NIS server is not responding.
If I use domainname command I can get the NIS domain name and I can ping the NIS server too.
Distribution: Fedora Core 3, Suse 9.2 Professional
Posts: 9
Rep:
Whatever happened to this thread? I'm getting pretty much the exact same errors on my Suse 9.0 when trying to set up the NIS client. I haven't found any other thread here or on google that has come this close.
It was due to my firewall. I installed a different firewall (firestarter) that would also allow me to grant access based on source machine and not just port. Giving my client machines greater access sorted NIS out. It also sorted out my internet connection.
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