Netbios, NIS and sendmail

[Zathros]

Ok, Ive been having problems with sendmail and network telnet logins for about a month. I finally traced the telnet problem to BTI telcoms DNS servers being flaky. Changed to a local server and that fixed that.

But when I boot the system, it runs fine until it starts the netbios. It will say "Starting Netbios: nbd" and hang for several minutes. I've had different error messages. One, "/dev/ttya01 another process waiting to start" , also "S89hostmib failed to complete in 120 seconds". The system eventually boots, but I cant send outgoing mail because of the error "The messgae could not be sent because it rejected yu as sender. Server response :"451 NIS map mail.aliases specified but NIS not running". Inbound seems to work fine on polling the server with a pc using outlook express.

Ive checked the /etc/hosts setup and its fine. It seems everytime I fix something, something else breaks though. Any ideas?

 

[Zathros]

Ive spent the better part of the day researching this. As far as I can tell everything should be working. /etc/hosts is fine. The dns servers are configured in resove.conf and are live. I have my pc defined in /etc/hosts. But Termilte still will not connect.

I downloaded a free telnet client to see if it might be termlite, and in fact, using that program (erics telnet 98) I CAN conect if I use the server ip. Using the server name still fails.

I have'nt rebooted so Im not sure if that will help. will try that after 5.

 

[stanhubble]

Zathros,

Your resolution problem is on your client side.
What os is the client running?
(sounds like windows 9x).
Check what dns the client is resolving to.
(run winipcfg)
Try pinging the ip , if it works try pinging the name and see what ip it is trying to resolve to.

HTH
stan