Re: clnt_call errors in NIS

1999-08-04 Thread Richard A Nelson
On 2 Aug 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > You tell me. I have glibc 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2pre installations here with > both NIS servers and clients on them, and for me it all simply works. > Alas I cannot reproduce the problems that other people are having with > NIS, and I am really trying. So, I

re clnt_call errors in NIS

1999-08-04 Thread Christopher Clark
Don't know the answer to the problem but, my NIS client couldn't bind to my NIS server (itself) until one day I set up a DNS server (another computer) for my Intranet. Then NIS started working. Both computers are in /etc/hosts and /etc/nsswitch.conf says try hosts first. I'm confused.

Re: clnt_call errors in NIS

1999-08-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joachim Trinkwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> People think that the NIS package does far more than it actually does; >> the only thing it does is keeping an eye on the current nis server (ypbind). >> All NIS

Re: clnt_call errors in NIS

1999-07-30 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > People think that the NIS package does far more than it actually does; > the only thing it does is keeping an eye on the current nis server (ypbind). > All NIS access is actually handled by glibc > Okay, but which version of libc6 is supposed

Re: clnt_call errors in NIS

1999-07-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Max: > After upgrading to the new 3.3.3 version of nis in potato, I started > getting the following errors when logging in or doing an su on nis > client machines: > > yp_all: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out That's an error produces by glibc. > I also upgraded to libc6 2.1.2 recently, but