Catherine wrote:
I'm trying to set up a network to run NIS across a variety of machines (SuSE 10.1, Mandriva 10, Windows XP Pro) and I was wondering this was possible; a search didn't bring me a lot of results . Has anyone had any experience of setting this up, and were there any specific issues I should be aware of?
You have already been told that it won't work with Windows. Set up the server first. Edit /var/yp/securenets to specify the IP addresses of your clients. See that it runs and test it with ypcat -h hostname passwd Specify the server at your clients in /etc/yp.conf. Test proper ypbind setup with ypwhich. Set up a slave server if you really rely on NIS. IMHO it is advisable not to use the passwd files from /etc as source data for NIS. Instead it's better to place them in /var/yp/etc. Otherwise, on the YP servers these accounts are available both local and via NFS, and that can lead to inconsistencies and hard-to-debug problems. /var/yp/Makefile must be changed to support that. There is a big disadvantage, though: If one uses /var/yp/etc, useradd(8) (and by extension, yast2) can not be used for user management any more. One has to use an editor, just like in the old times... :-) Cheers, Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com