Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (75 mails)

[Joe Garfoot <work@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> You're kidding, right? Just use Linux, since that has native support for
> NIS/YP and NFS. Plus, if you use Samba then it is a piece of cake to make
> that Linux machine act as a PDC.


Hello,

Sorry I should clarify my question. I know that Linux supports NIS/NFS
natively and I also know that SAMBA works very well as a PDC. As I said in
my previous email we are tied to a Win2k PDC. I would happily upgrade it to
Linux in a second but it's not going to happen in the foreseeable future, at
the moment there are bigger fish to fry.

I would like the Linux boxes to authenticate against the Win2k server. I
read that MS' Services for unix will allow the Win2K server to act as a NIS
server. As you say the Linux boxes support this natively making it much
simpler to link them up. Has anyone used this package?

Hope that makes a bit more sense
Thanks
Joe