[Freeipa-users] RHEL5 IPA client for RHEL6.3 IPA server?

David Summers david at summersoft.fay-ar.us
Wed Oct 17 17:12:15 UTC 2012


On 10/17/2012 7:49 AM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> David Summers wrote:
>>
>> I have looked back through the last year of mail archives for this list
>> and haven't yet found anything on this.
>>
>> I spent a day or so trying to get a RHEL6.3 server set up with several
>> clients,
>>
>> Clients:
>> RHEL 6.3 32-bit
>> RHEL 6.3 64-bit
>> RHEL 5.8 32-bit
>> RHEL 5.8 64-bit
>>
>> So far I've been able to get the RHEL 6.3 clients to register and setup
>> up as a client for RHEL 6.3 IPA server but whenever I try to install the
>> ipa-client on RHEL 5.8 I just get the following error:
>>
>> [root at rh5 ~]# ipa-client-install
>> Discovery was successful!
>> Hostname: rh5.summersoft
>> Realm: SUMMERSOFT
>> DNS Domain: summersoft
>> IPA Server: ipaserver.summersoft
>> BaseDN: dc=summersoft
>>
>>
>> Continue to configure the system with these values? [no]: yes
>> User authorized to enroll computers: admin
>> Synchronizing time with KDC...
>> Unable to sync time with IPA NTP server, assuming the time is in sync.
>> Password for admin at SUMMERSOFT:
>>
>> Joining realm failed: SASL Bind failed Local error (-2) !
>> child exited with 9
>> Installation failed. Rolling back changes.
>> IPA client is not configured on this system.
>>
>> In the install log:
>>
>> 2012-10-16 23:16:34,410 DEBUG stderr=
>> 2012-10-16 23:16:35,032 DEBUG args=/usr/sbin/ipa-join -s
>> ipaserver.summersoft -b
>>   dc=summersoft
>> 2012-10-16 23:16:35,032 DEBUG stdout=
>> 2012-10-16 23:16:35,032 DEBUG stderr=SASL Bind failed Local error (-2) !
>> child exited with 9
>>
>>
>> Is RHEL 5.8 a supported client for RHEL 6.3 IPA server?
>>
>> If so, what am I doing wrong?  I tried following both the RHEL 5.8 and
>> RHEL 6.3 install instructions but
>> nothing I have tried is working so far!
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any help or pointers you can provide.
>>
>>     - David Summers
>
> What is the version of the 5.8 ipa-client package? You want 
> ipa-client-2.1.3-2.el5_8
>
> rob
>

Yes, I have ipa-client-2.1.3-2.el5_8 but I have not been able to get it 
to join the IPA server.
I've turned off all firewalls.

I am running IPv6, does that make a difference?

Any ideas?

    - Thanks
    - David Summers




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