1) Specific IP addresses or rather the names of the servers. I've tried broadcasting too. BTW, the configuration module in yast does not find any servers either if asked to scan for them. 2) Default firewall, i.e. I've not configured anything explicitly. Basically a fresh install out-of-the-box of SuSE Pro 9.1. I believe this should equate no "no firewall"? 3) netstat on the server shows no incoming connections. On the client, /var/log/messages says: Oct 28 07:29:07 sirius ypbind[23718]: broadcast: RPC: Timed out. Oct 28 07:29:12 sirius ypbind[23718]: broadcast: RPC: Can't encode arguments. Oct 28 07:29:52 sirius last message repeated 4 times Oct 28 07:30:52 sirius last message repeated 6 times Oct 28 07:31:52 sirius last message repeated 6 times Oct 28 07:32:52 sirius last message repeated 6 times Oct 28 07:33:52 sirius last message repeated 6 times Oct 28 07:34:52 sirius last message repeated 6 times Oct 28 07:35:52 sirius last message repeated 6 times Oct 28 07:36:52 sirius last message repeated 6 times Oct 28 07:37:02 sirius ypbind[23718]: broadcast: RPC: Can't encode arguments. Oct 28 07:38:06 sirius ypbind[23718]: broadcast: RPC: Timed out. Oct 28 07:38:25 sirius ypbind[23718]: broadcast: RPC: Can't encode arguments. Still baffled, /Lennart onsdagen den 27 oktober 2004 11.33 skrev Bjorn Tore Sund:
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Lennart Börjeson wrote:
I'm having trouble configuring my amd64 boxes as NIS Clients. The ypbind daemon can't connect to the server. x86 boxes on the same network can. All are running SuSE 9.1, in appropriate x86 and amd64 versions of course.
I'm baffled. I've tried running ypbind -debug, but all it says is repeated "yp ping" of the NIS servers, which seemingly don't respond. As I said, only my amd64 boxes have this problem.
Are there any known issues with NIS and amd64? I've tried following various troubleshooting guides I found on the 'net, but I'm no NIS expert and I might of course have overlooked something obvious.
Any hints, please?
I've got AMD64 NIS clients, have used SLES 8 in the past but have migrated all of them to SuSE 9.1 over the last couple of months. I never ran into problems of any sort.
1. Are you using broadcast or specific IP addresses to identify NIS servers? 2. What's the firewall setup on the clients? 3. As you restart the ypbind daemon, does 'netstat -ut' on the server show anything useful?
Bjørn
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