Re: NIS woes.. Ubuntu nis client doesn't ping Debian nis Server
On 2009-08-13 23:15, raman narasimhan wrote:
We have a networks lab at our college that has a fully configured
windows network. Now we are completely changing to linux. All systems in
the lab have been installed with Debian/Ubuntu. We have configured NIS
server in one of the Debian machines. And NIS client in the remaining
machines. But the problem is that though all Debian clients can login
into the NIS server, login into the Debian Server from Ubuntu clients is
not possible.
Surprisingly we found out that we couldn't ping the Ubuntu machines from
the Debian Server and vice versa. Since the network is working well in
Windows, it cannot be an external problem. And we have thoroughly
checked whether the NIS server and client have been configured
correctly. We found no mistakes.
Sounds like a routing/gateway problem, having nothing to do with NIS.
So what could be the problem?? We have no problems in logging into
Debian Server from Debian clients.
We are new to networking in LINUX. We searched on the Internet and found
a few pages that advice to disable IPV6. Even that didn't work.
The main problem, I think, is that NIS has in most sites been
superseded by LDAP.
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