Problems with NIS and automount on fedora8

[Wallace, Brooke]

Thanks, 

The issue was the Firewall. I had that on my list, but it was the last
thing I checked because I configured NIS when I ran the install, thus I
assumed the firewall would be set correctly for NIS. Guess I was wrong.
Perhaps this is am install bug?

BTW - I had already checked the SELinux config.

-Brooke

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erwin J. Prinz [mailto:ejprinz at austin.rr.com] 
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 8:35 PM
> To: Wallace, Brooke
> Subject: Problems with NIS and automount on fedora8
> 
> Brooke:
> 
> I am running Fedora 8 with nfs and nis with no issues. In the 
> beginning 
> I had one machine which didn't start ypbind after booting (I 
> had to do 
> it by hand) and which intermittently couldn't access nfs. I found out 
> that SELINUX was to blame. You can try to go to Applications/System 
> Tools/SELinux Management and make sure it is set to 
> "permissive", system 
> default policy type "targeted".
> 
> Another issue can be with the firewall. I'd switch it off and see 
> whether this helps (as root, type: service iptables stop; 
> iptables --flush).
> 
> Hope this helps, Erwin
>