clients not recognising rpc.yppasswdd running on NIS server

[pale october]

I've been trying to setup a NIS server that is servicing about 8-12 clients of various builds (SUSE and Debian). My server is also using NFS to share a home directory for a set of users for all the clients. I'm able to get the users to login using the accounts on the NIS server, but I can't get the yppasswd command to work. The users need to be able to change their password from any of the clients. Right now, if a user uses passwd, it will go through changing the password with everything looking like it worked, but the next time the user logs in, the password hasn't been changed. I have also tried yppasswd, but when I use this command, i get an error stating that rpc.yppasswdd is not running on the server. The only problem is that I DO have that service running on my NIS server.

I'm trying to figure out why my clients can't see that my server is running a specific service. Is there someway to broadcast that information?


Thanks for any help!

Pale October
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[-cosmo-]

I have the exact same problem, however I can't even run passwd (complaing about not beeing able to retrive auth info).

Anyone got ideas?

Thanks in advance

/Cosmo

[-cosmo-]

I think I've found a solution, at least to my problem. The error when running yppasswd on the clients was: