Anyone got F11 NIS working?

[Ralf Corsepius]

Tom Horsley wrote:
> I installed some fedora 11 virtual machines at work today,
> and tried to configure them to use NIS logins, and the ypbind
> service always times out when it tries to start.
 >
> All the config files I can think of to look at are identical
> on my F10 vms and F11 vms, but NIS just don't work on F11
> (for me :-). Anyone installed F11 and gotten NIS to work?
Sort of ...

Initially, I was facing similar issues as you.

Adding
domain <mydomain> broadcast
to /etc/yp.conf finally got NIS going again.

With FC < 11, this had not been required.

 > Both selinux and firewall are disabled on these machines, so
 > they shouldn't be the source of the problem.

NetworkManager? I haven't systematically tested my setup with NM, but I 
have been observing several NIS breaksdowns related to NM, SELinux and 
gdm interacting.

Ralf