Thanks Julien. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mike Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Apr 28, 2005 9:57 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD NIS client and Solaris NIS server problem... To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cool, those additional nis_client_flags did the trick, much appreciated :) Mike C On 4/28/05, Julien Gabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > > I'm having a bit of trouble getting my FreeBSD workstation ( 5.4 > > PRERELEASE ) binding to our Solaris 8 NIS server. I do not get any > > warnings or errors when ypbind starts up, but if I do a 'rpcinfo > > localhost', it takes a very long time to come back with anything(stays > > in a 'nanslp' state the whole time), and trying to do a 'ypcat hosts' > > ( or an equivalent ypcat query ) times out with the error: > > > > $ ypcat hosts > > ypcat: no such map hosts.byaddr. reason: Can't bind to server which > > serves this domain > > > > if I run rpcbind manually with the -d flag I get the following message: > > > > $ rpcbind -d > > rpcbind debugging enabled. > > can't get local ip6 address: hostname nor servname provided, or not > > known > > > > Now, I dont have ipv6 compiled in the kernel, but is rpcbind dependent on > > it? > > > > Here are the parameters I'm using in rc.conf for nis: > > > > rpcbind_enable="YES" > > nisdomainname="delta" > > nis_client_enable="YES" > > nis_client_flags="-S delta,engr-nis1,engr-nis2" > > > > Any info is appreciated, I would like to access my NFS home directory > > from my workstation :) > > Because rpcbind is a dependancy of ypbind, no (real) need to explicitly > enable it... but it doesn't hurt. > > I personnaly use a very similar setup at work (Solaris NIS server and > FreeBSD NIS client), and binding point to point the two works great: > # grep nis /etc/rc.conf > nisdomainname="domain" > nis_client_enable="YES" > nis_client_flags="-ypset -s -m -S domain,foor,bar" > # /etc/rc.d/ypbind start > > If ypwhich(1) don't tell you more on the hostname of NIS server, the > problem may come from the configuration of the server, not the client. > > -- > -jpeg. > > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
