[BBLISA] NIS/Samba update

[John Stoffel]

Scott> My test setup consists of Enterprise 5 server running NIS and
Scott> Samba, and dual-boot XP and CentOS 5 clients.

Scott> On my test setup, I'm able to create new samba accounts and
Scott> change samba passwords with no problems.

Scott> NIS still gives me problems, though.  I am unable to change
Scott> passwords no matter what.  Also, ypwhich on the client returns
Scott> localhost.

Ok, can you give us more details on your Network and YP configuration,
including domain name, etc?  

Scott> I have reviewed everything, including configs of other networks
Scott> that are live, and cannot figure out where the problem is.

It sounds like you might, and I stress might, have the client
mis-configured with which network it's trying to talk to the yp
server.

What happens if you do

> /etc/init.d/ypbind restart
> ypwhich

what do you get then?  What's in your /etc/yp.conf file?  How is your
server configured?  

Scott> So, what might I be missing?   Why can't I change passwords?

Scott> Also, what would cause the client, when issued ypcat passwd, to
Scott> not show the newer accounts create by the server, even after a
Scott> /var/yp make has been issued?

Have you made the client into a slave by mistake, but it's not pulling
over the changes from the master because it's not listed in
/etc/ypservers?  Or  the ypservers map?  

Scott> Both client and server have been rebooted many times.

That's not going to help probably, since you've got a
mis-configuration from the sound of it, not a system problem.

I assume both boxes are on the same subnet, have matching subnet
masks, can talk to each other (ssh, ping, etc) without any problems?  

Thanks,
John