problem with NIS

seth · External Since: Feb 20, 2009 Posts: 1

I'm having problems managing services for unix on my network. There are 2
locations with 2 domain controllers each. All four servers are Windows 2003
SP2 and running SFU 3.5. I have all my Linux boxes configured to
authenticate with NIS through those 4 servers and it is working fine.

The problem I have is with making any changes. If I open the console on any
of those 4 servers, it tells me it 'cannot obtain one or more server names
from active directory'.

Let's say I have ServerA and ServerB at my office and ServerC with ServerD
at the data center. ServerA is the NIS master with B,C,D as slaves. I just
installed ServerE in the data center as a domain controller running Windows
2008 with identity management for unix. In the console it won't connect
there, saying 'wmi error has occured. index was out of range. must be
non-negative and less than the size of the location. Parameter name: index'

I followed kb article 923515 but it doesn't help. I checked the server
reference of each of the 5 domain controllers and the values are correct
(doesn't say <not set>).

I also tried from the command line on ServerE to add that as a slave. I did
'nisadmin addserver -d company.com -m ServerE.company.com' and it returned
'no such object'

Ashish · External Since: Feb 24, 2009 Posts: 1

You should check the serverreference attribute of all other servers
that eventually land up in CN=Sites. There is a vbs script that dumps
the values for all such servers, will try to post it today - that'l
help.

- Ashish

rico101 · Joined: Aug 27, 2009 Posts: 1

Hello Ashish,

I'm experiencing the same problem, do you have that VB script that dumps all that information that I can use to try and identify the culprit server.

Thanks

-Richard

l0ys · Joined: Oct 30, 2009 Posts: 1

Hi, have you solved your problem?

I have the same problem here. I get the WMI error when I try to get the NIS servers list from "Microsoft Indentity Management For Unix" console.

Let me know.

I also would like to know if someone can send me the VB Script that dumps all that information that I can use to try and identify the culprit server.

Thanks a lot!