Receiving Error Message when running sh rep_populate.sh

Question

Following directions at http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/linux/htdocs/yum-repository-setup.html
Receiving Error Message when running sh rep_populate.sh trying to create local yum repositories and configure up2date and yum to install and update packages from them.
THIS PROGRAM IS DEPRECATED!
You should be generating xml metadata instead.
Please see http://linux.duke.edu/metadata
After executing following instructions and replacing server name with our server name.smmj.com
Client Setup
1. Import the GPG key
rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY
2. Configure up2date to use the yum repository. Edit /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources. Comment out line
up2date default
to
#up2date default
and add the following lines. Replace <repository_server> with the hostname of the machine that is hosting the yum repository. Comment and uncomment individual repositories as needed.
Enterprise Linux 5
(commented uncommented)yum el5_$ARCH_latest http://<repository_server>/yum/EnterpriseLinux/EL5/latest/$ARCH/
(commented uncommented)yum el5_$ARCH_addons http://<repository_server>/yum/EnterpriseLinux/EL5/addons/$ARCH/
#yum el5_$ARCH_oracle http://<repository_server>/yum/EnterpriseLinux/EL5/oracle/$ARCH/
#yum el5_ga_$ARCH_base http://<repository_server>/yum/EnterpriseLinux/EL5/ga/base/$ARCH/
#yum el5_u1_$ARCH_base http://<repository_server>/yum/EnterpriseLinux/EL5/1/base/$ARCH/
#yum el5_u2_$ARCH_base http://<repository_server>/yum/EnterpriseLinux/EL5/2/base/$ARCH/
#yum el5_u3_$ARCH_base http://<repository_server>/yum/EnterpriseLinux/EL5/3/base/$ARCH/
#yum el5_ga_$ARCH_patch http://<repository_server>/yum/EnterpriseLinux/EL5/ga/patch/$ARCH/
#yum el5_u1_$ARCH_patch http://<repository_server>/yum/EnterpriseLinux/EL5/1/patch/$ARCH/
#yum el5_u2_$ARCH_patch http://<repository_server>/yum/EnterpriseLinux/EL5/2/patch/$ARCH/
#yum el5_u3_$ARCH_patch http://<repository_server>/yum/EnterpriseLinux/EL5/3/patch/$ARCH/
and running additional instructions
2. Run up2date to install python-urlgrabber.
up2date -i python-urlgrabber
Receiving following error
There was some sort of I/O error: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>
Further when trying to replace /etc/yum.repos.d/ULN-Base.repo ULN-Base.repo unable to find file, file that is there
is called public-yum-el5.repo
Made following changes in that file
Enterprise Linux 5
[el5_latest]
name=Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - latest
baseurl=http://<repository_server>/yum/EnterpriseLinux/EL5/latest/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
[el5_addons]
name=Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - addons
baseurl=http://<repository_server>/yum/EnterpriseLinux/EL5/addons/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
[el5_oracle]
name=Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - oracle
baseurl=http://<repository_server>/yum/EnterpriseLinux/EL5/oracle/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
[el5_ga_base]
name=Enterprise Linux $releasever GA - $basearch - base
baseurl=http://<repository_server>/yum/EnterpriseLinux/EL5/ga/base/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
[el5_u1_base]
name=Enterprise Linux $releasever U1 - $basearch - base
baseurl=http://<repository_server>/yum/EnterpriseLinux/EL5/1/base/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
[el5_u2_base]
name=Enterprise Linux $releasever U2 - $basearch - base
baseurl=http://<repository_server>/yum/EnterpriseLinux/EL5/2/base/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
[el5_u3_base]
name=Enterprise Linux $releasever U3 - $basearch - base
baseurl=http://<repository_server>/yum/EnterpriseLinux/EL5/3/base/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
[el5_ga_patch]
name=Enterprise Linux $releasever GA - $basearch - patch
baseurl=http://<repository_server>/yum/EnterpriseLinux/EL5/ga/patch/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
[el5_u1_patch]
name=Enterprise Linux $releasever U1 - $basearch - patch
baseurl=http://<repository_server>/yum/EnterpriseLinux/EL5/1/patch/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
[el5_u2_patch]
name=Enterprise Linux $releasever U2 - $basearch - patch
baseurl=http://<repository_server>/yum/EnterpriseLinux/EL5/2/patch/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
[el5_u3_patch]
name=Enterprise Linux $releasever U3 - $basearch - patch
baseurl=http://<repository_server>/yum/EnterpriseLinux/EL5/3/patch/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
Then ran following commands
up2date -u
Output
There was some sort of I/O error: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>
yum update
http://<ice.smmj.com>/yum/EnterpriseLinux/EL5/addons/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>
Trying other mirror.
http://<ice.smmj.com>/yum/EnterpriseLinux/EL5/latest/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: el5_latest. Please verify its path and try again
We would like a simple and correct way of doing this or we will be forced to switch to another os and another provider
Thanks, for your help

Answer 1

We purchased Licensed version of Red Hat Linux Oracle for our network server. My boss wanted a simple way of installing Samba on it so that the server can be used for file and printer sharing. We have an active directory on our network and couple of other Windows servers as well as other Red Hat servers. He wants to install Samba on that licensed version so that it can primarily be used for file storage and sharing, he wants to be able to connect with gui type interface to this server from windows machines and linux machines and he wants for this Red Hat Linux Oracle machine to show up in active directory.
Aparently when we went to Applications, Add Remove Software in Red Hat Fedora Samba was not in there.
When we go to System, Administration, Server Settings, Services, Samba is also not there.
Nowhere can we find an easy way of installing samba on this Linux OS.
I went to your site, signed in, (previously there was only 1 channel available there, I have just recently found and added all the channels that were aplicable to our system) and downloading them now to another version of the same type of Licensed Red Hat Linux Oracle. Hopefully when I use Software Updater in System Tools it will load the packages we are loking for (from the channels I selected on your website). Once that is done I think I could just go to add remove software and install the packages that I need from there.
I am still not sure why I set out to install repositories on this version of Linux, perhaps I mistakenly thought that once everything is installed (according to directions at http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/linux/htdocs/yum-repository-setup.html) on the machine in question I would be able to use that same machine to get the packages for that same machine. We were in such a rush and desperate to put the server on to the network it did not dawn on me that this scenario is designed to have one serve on the network that holds repositories and other machines connect to it for packages.
I think I am on the right track in my logic, log in to your site with the CSI number, user name and password, select ALL the channels versus only one, save the search, then from the machine update packages, then add new software and Samba Should be in there. I would like to hear your thoughts on this.
This version of Linux seem like a very reliable version of OS and I would hate to give up on it, especially since we already bought licenses for it, its just that we don't have that much experience with it and I would upreciate all the info that you can give us for it. I am sure that everyone at SMMJ will upreciate you for it.