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<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm trying to bring
up a machine on our network with fedora8.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007><FONT face=Arial size=2>The install went
well, and it was working until we tried to tie it into NIS.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007><FONT face=Arial size=2>I did the prescribed
edits to /etc/yp.conf, auto.master, nsswitch, etc. But can't seem to get things
working. We have many RHEL4 and RHEL5 systems working just fine. I tried makeing
these files exactly the same as those system, but still no
go.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007><FONT face=Arial size=2>Currently the
systems X11 greeter is no longer starting up (it was initially) - now it just
hangs after everything appears to come up normally from a
reboot.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007><FONT face=Arial size=2>Switching to single
user mode...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007><FONT face=Arial size=2>I can ping systems
on the network using IP addresses - no problem</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007><FONT face=Arial size=2>Using hostnames w/
or w/o domain name is now finding the IP, but then generates the following
messages:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007><FONT face=Arial size=2># ping
hostbar.domainfoo.com</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007><FONT face=Arial size=2>PING
hostbar.domainfoo.com (172,12.34.56) 56(84) bytes of data.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007><FONT face=Arial size=2>do_ypcall:
clnt_call: RPC: Timed out</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007><FONT face=Arial size=2>do_ypcall:
clnt_call: RPC: Timed out</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007>64 bytes from hostbar.domainfoo.com
(172.12.34.56): icmp_seq=1 ttl=254 time=0.470 ms</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007>--- hostbar.domainfoo.com ping statistics
---</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007>1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet
loss, time 0ms</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007>rtt min/avg/max/mdev =
0.470/0.470/0.470/0.000 ms</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007>I saw some posts about do_ypcall ... RPC:
Timed out. One mentioned the nscd, so I started that service, others pretty much
sounded like syntax errors in config files, firewall, or bad cables.
</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007>I'm pretty sure I ruled out bad eth driver,
cables, and connection since I can ping using ip address, and I can even connect
via samba, using "user" authentication and ship files to the machine w/no
problems or delays observed.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007> </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007>My IT guy is hapring on the fact that its a
new fedora release and may not work on my hardware (drivers), or that another
machine on the network has got the same IP as mine using DHCP (since our routers
are losy).</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007>So again the real issue is getting NIS to
work. This is what my config is:</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007>/etc/yp.conf:</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007>ypserver 172.12.34.56 # this is the correct
address of our yp server (same as other linux hosts on the network are
using)</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007>domain domainfoo.com broadcast # this is the
correct domain as well</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007>/etc/auto.master:</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007>/mnt/pkg /etc/auto.pkg -g
</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007>/mnt/sweng /etc/auto.sweng -g</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
class=796453003-01122007>/usr2
yp:auto.home</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007>/etc/auto.pkg:</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007>RPM.rhel4WS_FOO -fstype=nfs
somehost.domainfoo.com:/pkg.RHEL_4/FOOpackages</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007>/etc/auto.sweng</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007>archives -fstype=nfs
anotherhost.domainfoo.com:/opt/mnt/bar/archives</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007>I've also added the following to the end of
/etc/passwd as per instructions from our IT docs (although current linux system
do not have this):</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007>+::::::</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007>I guess auto.home is on the NIS
server....</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007>One more note: I am able to see
/mnt/pkg/RPM.rhel4WS_FOO w/o problems....</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007>Any help someone can give me, or pointers to
things to try would be very much appreciated. Unfortunately our IT guys are
afraid of Linux and just want to support Winblows and thier ancient Solaris
systems.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=796453003-01122007></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
class=796453003-01122007>-Brooke</SPAN></DIV></FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>