ahh hell, it started working.  i think i forgot to make after i changed 
something or something.  maybe all it needed what a reboot, who knows.  
anyways, now ypcat passwd.byname spits out all my users >= 500 on the client 
machine.  but i can't log in using those users.  i'm forgetting to do 
something, but i can't remember.  the ypserver is sharing passwd and group 
files...

thanks for the help, i appreciated it,
christopher

On Thursday 19 December 2002 01:55 am, christopher j bottaro wrote:
> On Thursday 19 December 2002 01:41 am, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> >     This may probably be a dumb question (and may not solve the
> > problem), but did you a) start ypserv, ypxfrd, and yppasswdd on the
> > server? and b) ran 'make -C /var/yp' and c) executed a ypinit on the
> > client?
>
> a)  hmm, ypxfrd and yppasswdd were not running, but turning them on changes
> nothing
> b)  yes
> c)  there is no ypinit on the client machines...it is not included in
> ypbind-1.11-2 or yptools-2.7-3, its only included in ypserv-2.5-1
>
> >     ypbind not being able to bind usually is one of two things - well,
> > in my case it was: either the nisdomain isn't set (so it has no clue
> > what it's doing), and/or the server is denying access.  So, I'd check a
> > few things since you said your nisdomain is set:  is
> > '/var/yp/securenets' set up on the server?  are you allowing connections
> > through the firewall - if you're using any (such as iptables).
>
> /var/yp/securenets does not exist on my machine.  the man pages say if it
> doesn't exist, then ypserv will allow connections from all hosts.
>
> i'm behind a hardware firewall, so iptables is turned off on all my
> machines...
>
> arg, this is frustrating...i don't wanna go home till i fix this.  i
> remember this being a lot easier in redhat 7.3 (as opposed to redhat 8.0),
> what changed?
>
> thanks,
> christopher



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