In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >We're trying to get NIS to work arround here. When testing locally >everything is ok, but we wan't it to work across two different networks >and there is a firewall in between. >We've tryed to open up the firewall but without results.
You'll have to open up _all_ UDP and TCP ports for the local and remote networks, since this is a RPC service of which you cannot know which port it will run on in advance >Has anyone got any comments on this? Use /etc/yp.conf on the remote clients to point to the right NIS server(s) since broadcasting to find the NIS servers won't work as well. Mike.
