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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve recently had to restart my IPA servers and my NIS compatibility mode has stopped working.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve configured my IPA server to run in NIS compatibility mode by doing the following.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:140%;background:whitesmoke'><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>[root@ipaserver ~]# ipa-nis-manage enable<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:140%;background:whitesmoke'><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>[root@ipaserver ~]# ipa-compat-manage enable<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:140%;background:whitesmoke'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Restart the DNS and Directory Server service: </span><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:140%;background:whitesmoke'><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>[root@server ~]# service restart rpcbind<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:140%;background:whitesmoke'><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>[root@server ~]# service restart dirsrv<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>On my NIS clients I have the following setup in the yp.conf file.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>domain domainname.ca server ipaservername.domainname.ca<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I tried just running the broadcast option but with no luck.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>When I try to do a service ypbind start on my NIS clients it takes a few minutes to finally fail.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>When I tried an yptest says “Can’t communicate with ypbind” which makes sense since ypbind will not start.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On the NIS client in the messages file it says the following;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ypbind: broadcast: RPC: Timed Out<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cannot bind UDP: Address already in use<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Nothing has changed on my IPA server/configuration so I have no idea why this stopped working.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Any suggestions?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Matt<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>