[Freeipa-devel] Help installing freeipa client?

[Karl MacMillan]

On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 18:02 +1000, David O'Brien wrote:
> All of the following applies to 32 bit F7, each machine running in a VM.
> 
> I installed freeipa-server ok, I can add users, etc. I used the --bind
> switch to create a local dns server for testing purposes.
> 
> In another vm, I installed the client, but when I ran the config script,
> I ran into the following:
> 
> 1. it couldn't determine the DNS domain, so I added it manually
> 2. Failed to find the IPA server name, so I added that manually
> 3. The script returned Ldap Error: {'desc': "Can't contact LDAP server"}
> Failed to verify that <serverName> is and IPA Server, aborting.
> 
> Additional info:
> Client machine:
> - $ hostname returns a fqdn
> - ping fqdn returns the "public" ip (not 127.0.0.1)
> - I can ping the IPA server by name and get the "public" ip
> - I added the IPA server ip to /etc/resolv.conf
> 
> Server machine:
> - $ hostname returns a fqdn
> - ping fqdn returns the "public" ip (not 127.0.0.1)
> - ping the client by name returns "unknown host"
> - ping the client by ip is ok
> 

Did you allow the correct ports?

> I notice that there is resolv.conf and resolve.conf on the server. The
> latter contains only info related to this configuration.
> 

So what is in resolv.conf? There should only be one (resolv.conf) and it
should only have the ipa server. That might be the problem.

Also - last I used the bind setup there was no reverse resolution.
Without that I don't think things will work correctly. Also, did you add
the client to dns?

Karl