Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 20:20:27 +0100 (CET) From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: NIS/YP struggles Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102012010010.92987-100000@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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I got some problems installing and using NIS/YP. I set up a YP/NIS server and a slave server to serve a small domain. But something seems to be wrong. master server and slave server are set up as described in the handbook. Server daemon is present, both machines should be YP clients to theirselfs, so I set up them to be clients with ypbind -s -ypsetme etc. I set up rpc.ypxfrd on both servers and creating the slave entries seems to be very easy and works. Both machines and the clients are on the same local network. Both machines use IPFW as filter and both are fully transparent on the local network for all packets and protocols. Both machines use tcpwrapper and all services for NFS, RPC (portmapper), NIS/YP are allowed to connect. But nothing happens! When the master server generates its new maps every hour it returns a failure that it could not create an UDp handle to the named slave server. When doing a ypcat passwd or similar command on the YP/NIS master server I get a failure like ypcat: no such map group.byname. reason: Can't bind to server which serves this domain ypbind is up, ypserv is up, all other servers are up ... what's wrong? At the moment I do not need YP/NIS, but within the next two weeks we are starting to install a main fileserver for three scientific machines and I wish to set up a secure NIS/YP and NFS environment. I have no glue why YP is not working as expected. Does anyone has any idea? How useful is "keyserv" in this manner? Is it possible to achiev "SecureNFS" and "SecureRPC" with FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE? Thnaks for your help and suggestions, Oliver Hartmann - MfG O. Hartmann ------------------------------------------------------------------- ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de Klimadatenserver-Abteilung des IPA IT Netz- und Systembetreuung Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz Becherweg 21 D-55099 Mainz Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinensaal) Tel: +496131/3924144 FAX: +496131/3923532 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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