Anyone got F11 NIS working?

Clint Dilks clintd at scms.waikato.ac.nz
Sun Jun 21 22:34:03 UTC 2009


Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Tom Horsley wrote:
>> I installed some fedora 11 virtual machines at work today,
>> and tried to configure them to use NIS logins, and the ypbind
>> service always times out when it tries to start.
> >
>> All the config files I can think of to look at are identical
>> on my F10 vms and F11 vms, but NIS just don't work on F11
>> (for me :-). Anyone installed F11 and gotten NIS to work?
> Sort of ...
>
> Initially, I was facing similar issues as you.
>
> Adding
> domain <mydomain> broadcast
> to /etc/yp.conf finally got NIS going again.
>
> With FC < 11, this had not been required.
>
> > Both selinux and firewall are disabled on these machines, so
> > they shouldn't be the source of the problem.
>
> NetworkManager? I haven't systematically tested my setup with NM, but 
> I have been observing several NIS breaksdowns related to NM, SELinux 
> and gdm interacting.
>
> Ralf
>
Hi, I haven't followed all of this Thread but I can confirm NIS works 
for F11 here.  My Particular config is SELinux Disabled (Note that with 
NIS there is a difference between disabled and permissive) and I believe 
I was seeing what you see when I was using NetworkManger to control 
networking when a system booted it couldn't bind to a ypserver until I 
logged in and restarted the service.  I tried experimenting with when yp 
started and even added a line to rc.local to restart the service.  This 
made no difference.

I then tried reverting to the network service rather than NetworkManager 
and things started working as I expected.

I hope this helps :)




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