NIS server error

[fjleal]

Greetings!

Does anybody have any experience with NIS? I configured a FC2 box to be a NIS server following the how-tos. I definied the domain, changed /etc/init.d/network, configured yp.conf, /etc/hosts, /etc/nsswitch.conf, /etc/ypserv.conf... ... ...

After starting the services, "ypwhich" answers with the NIS domain name (ok), but "ypcat <map-name>" always returns: "No such map <map-name>. Reason: Internal NIS error."

The map exists in /var/yp/<domain-name>, /var/yp has been compiled ok, I did run "/usr/lib64/yp/ypinit -m"... Still the "internal NIS error" message troubles me. Any ideas what it may be?

Thanks a lot!

[klaus_thorn]

check whether there are very long entries in this nis-map. remove them for a test. update with cd /var/yp && make

check whether there are network errors (by using ifconfig and looking for counted errors and by looking into /var/log/messages)