Hi there,
I have configured NIS in a small subnet running RedHat6.1 (server) and
Mandrake7 (clients and server). I have installed ypbind on the server and
works fine (I can get the entries with ypmatch, ypcat etc. without
problems.) The yp.conf and nsswitch.conf files on both the server and the
clients are exactly the same.
However:
1)At the clients ypbind fails to find the NIS server at start up and it
takes about 2-3 min. to find it. Then, yp-tools work without problem. Why is
this happening? How can I fix it?
2) After the server is found I log off and try to log on with the
username/password entries of the server's maps. I do not get an
authentication failure, which means that the entries were found, the
username/password form disappears for a couple of seconds but then appears
again. I never manage to log in. Why I cannot? The user configuration files
found on the server were not suitable for the client?
What do I have to make sure, in order not to get that problem?
Thanks in advance,
Stelios
