ahh, figured it out. gotta edit nsswitch.conf...=) cool, i'm finally done, thanks for all the help, Ashley.
christopher On Thursday 19 December 2002 02:12 am, christopher j bottaro wrote: > 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 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
