[BBLISA] NIS/Samba update

[Scott Ehrlich]

I finally got it working this morning.   I changed a couple of lines, 
somewhat experimentally, and the final bits worked perfectly.

Thanks to everyone for your support and patience.

Scott

On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, John Stoffel wrote:

>
> 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
>
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