On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 11:01:20AM -0500, Ben Kochie wrote:
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>normaly a YP domain is short, and has nothing to do with the FQDN, but
>besides that, have you run "make" in /var/yp?  and is the ypserv running
>properly?

make sure portmapper is running on the client as well

>
>Thank You,
>        Ben Kochie (ben at nerp.net)
>
> "Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends."
>
>On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Munir Nassar wrote:
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>> say, i am finally getting around to installing the NIS
>> server... now the server seems to be installing fine
>> (at least acording to the HOWTO) and it is up and
>> running but the YP client does not want to work...
>>
>> here is a snipping:
>> <SNIP>
>> [nassarmu at palpatine nassarmu]$ ypcat passwd
>> No such map passwd.byname. Reason: Can't bind to
>> server which serves this domain
>> </SNIP>
>>
>> and here is when i run ypbind -debug it just sits
>> there doing the ping for a minute or so... and then it
>> tries again...
>> <SNIP>
>> [root at palpatine nassarmu]# /sbin/ypbind -debug
>> parsing config file
>> Trying entry: ypserver palpatine
>> parsed ypserver palpatiimnimpleiit gt g
>> add_server() domain: palpatine.lab406.com, host:
>> palpatine, nobroadcast, slot: 0[Welcome to ypbind-mt,
>> version 1.7]
>>
>> ping host 'palpatine', domain 'palpatine.lab406.com'
>> Pinging all active server.
>> ping host 'palpatine', domain 'palpatine.lab406.com'
>> Signal (2) for quitting program arrived.
>> </SNIP>
>>
>> anybody here know why it would do this? anybody come
>> across this before?
>>
>>  -munir
>>
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