can you send me the entries in your /etc/hosts, /etc/exports files on server and /etc/fstab on client, it may help solve your problem. Nitin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip Mores" <philip.mores@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 7:01 AM Subject: RE: NIS error > -----Original Message----- > From: Cameron Simpson [mailto:cs@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 6:55 AM > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: NIS error > > > On 16:48 12 Nov 2003, Philip Mores <philip.mores@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > | I setup NIS server, the only NIS server. When I tried connecting the > | workstation, this error occurred during startup of the workstation: > | Listening for an NIS domain server ..... [FAILED]. I logged to the > | workstation as root and tried restarting the ypbind service but this error > | appeared: ypbind failed. The error was: Binding to the NIS domain: [OK] > | Listening for an NIS domain server [FAILED]. > > Are the client and server on the same subnet? Listening mode is done with > broadcasts, which require the server to be on the same net. Alternatively > you can specify a particular server when you set it up. The Other > possibility is that you have mistyped the NIS domain name. > > Client and server are on the same subnet. I check the NIS domain name for > the server and client, same NIS domain name used. Under the client, i can > ping the NIS server. When i execute ypwhich (on server and client), this > error occurred, "Can't communicate with ypbind". When I execute ypbind, it > fails. > > I'm using Redhat 9 for the server and client, and I'm also using the default > yp-tools, ypserv, ypbind & yppasswd of Redhat 9. > > Need help, > Philip > > > Cheers, > -- > Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 > http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ > > When you're all dressed up and no place to go. - B.H. Burt (19th cent) > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
