February 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

RE: [SLE] NIS, NIS+, Automount which combinations work
by Ken Gramm 01 Feb '04

01 Feb '04

>>> Used to have alot of lockups and crashes, but the sys admin reboots the servers every two weeks, so that has gone away. You might what to have someone audit your network, I run a network of 15 win2k servers and 3 linux servers for 200 users and everything works great. So well in fact, I haven't rebooted any of our servers for at least six months, and then it was only because I upgraded the hardware on one of the boxes. As for a good use for NIS, we use MS's Services For Unix to export our AD usernames to our linux servers running samba. As for Steve's question about what it is like on the other side of the fence, I don't feel he is really missing anything other then pretty screens and a fancy mail server (Exchange). Samba running on our linux servers is just as fast (if not faster) then the MS file servers. MySQL now has support for stored procedures and with their GUI Control Center, it is almost as easy to setup as MS SQL. I have to admit that I still love Exchange, but I am constantly looking for a open source replacement. One other thing that I haven't found on the linux front is any type of systems management (i.e MS Systems Management Server). We use it to keep track of everything from what programs users are running to making sure that the virus dats are updated on a regular basis. If anyone knows of something compairable, I would love to hear from them as MS SMS doesn't play well with non MS machines (go figure). :-) Ken

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I Can See Clearly Now, the Fonts Are Smooth:
by Carl William Spitzer IV 01 Feb '04

01 Feb '04

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6854 -- Jeffrey D. Sauer explains how to use Xft to make fonts look better and give your poor eyes a break. ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!

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NIS, NIS+, Automount which combinations work
by Steven T. Hatton 01 Feb '04

01 Feb '04

I've never found time to focus on this topic, but I believe it is very important. I discovered automount purely by accident. It wasn't until I removed NIS that I learned that automount required NIS. I seem to recall that it does (did) not work with NIS+, or something like that. I'm trying to get all this straight in my head. What are the various options available in SuSE 9.0 as regards NIS, NIS+, Automount, NFS, etc. I.e., what versions and variants are available, and how do they work together? What are the advantages and limitations of each? What kinds of security is available with each? Can the entire data transfer be encrypted? How. Can the authentication be encrypted or PKI based? I know I could probably formulate more coherent questions. I'm just trying to get some discussion going. I know LDAP, DNS, and DHCP can also play into this topic, as can IPv6. STH

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Getting "Network Neighborhood" to work
by George P. Stathis 01 Feb '04

01 Feb '04

Hey, I just installed 9.0 for the first time on one of my two home PCs. I clicked on the "Network" icon that the installer automatically placed on the Desktop and I got the message "smb:/ is not a valid file or folder". Yet, if I open up Konqueror and type: smb://my_other_home_pc_address I can access the Windows XP shared network folders on my other PC. What am I missing? Samba seems to have been installed properly. Do I need to do something with LiSA? Aren't they different things? Thanks in advance for your time. -GS

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DSL and SuSE?
by Stephen W 01 Feb '04

01 Feb '04

I am still new to linux and fumbling my way thru things. Seems to me there has been some discussion of using DSL with linux, but at the time I was not able to get DSL where I live. Just learned it is now available here. Will someone point my in the direction of how to access prior threads of discussions on this list (ala DSL - especially on Verizon)? Thanks ===== Stephen W Sarasota, FL "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine ..." Proverbs __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/

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