I was trying to get NIS working today and it seemed that Shorewall was blocking the NIS traffic as the ypbind worked fine on the NIS master (the shorewall server) however a client could not connect as it could not find the domain server. I stopped shorewall and tried again however it still would not connect which should eliminate shorewall. I am not sure that I have NIS set up correctly however I was wondering if anyone has got NIS working with shorewall and could supply me with a rule set to open the correct ports. I ran rpcinfo and opened the ports that I could see associated with ypserver and ypbind however this made no difference. As I said I am not at all sure that I had NIS set up correctly but I would like to see a working rule set if possible. Thanks
cheers();> I stopped shorewall and tried again however it still would not connect > which should eliminate shorewall.Just a guess, but ''service shorewall stop'' won''t completely flush all rules. Try ''shorewall clear''. Is NIS working then? .kb -- Hi, I''m a signature virus. Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
At 08:52 PM 1/8/03, you wrote:>How did you stop shorewall? Did you just stop the service or do a >shorewall clear? > >Stopping it does not leave all policies open but clearing it does. > >Mark ReynoldsI did a clear. I have decided to use a seperate single floppy bering firewall and a linux file server running NIS. With this configuration I got NIS working fine and any client can log in from any workstation with a central account database and home directories. I think this configuration is safer as well as nothing else is running on the firewall.