i am realy talking about nis
i already got nfs working
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001 19:48:22 -0400
David Grove
Don't confuse NIS with NFS. You're talking about NFS, which, frankly, doesn't even require NFS. NFS is somewhat similar to "shares" (NFS = "exports") for Win32. Each client does have a home directory, yes, unless you don't want them to (which is a "rig" to get rid of them, not a part of NFS). For example, each of my clients use a symlink to my home directory on my server (which itself is a symlink to a directory on my RAID drives) to store my mail, but not my entire home directory where some system-specific information is needed.
If you have access to it, I'd suggest SuSE Linux Unleashed by Sams. It's SuSE 6.2 but its description of NFS/NIS and setup are the best I've seen. Once you have the NIS/NFS server set up, YaST2 will let you handle the client parts easily. Otherwise, the information in the book is still valid and quite helpful.
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 04:49 pm, Landy Roman wrote:
I am interested in learning more details about NIS before configuring a client....
when it says the network shall be trasnparent does that meann that cients do not have a /home filesystem can someone shed some more light on NIS (NOT how to configure it b/c i am reading on it) but what does it look like?