NIS on Linux

[James Bond]

Hi there all

My prof just showed me this really super-cool thing called NIS (well, I think it is cool). We have a bunch of Sun's, one of which is the NIS server, and, the other 3 of which are clients, and 1 linux machine (probably going to be 4 as soon as we kill windows on them) running on the NIS as well.

My question is, how do you set up a NIS server on a Linux machine, because, I run Linux (college student == no money == no money to buy suns), as for the NIS client config part, I think that much I can handle, but, any help would be apreciated.

thanks
-JB

[drbugs]

Hey,
I've set this up at home. I'll try to put something together and post it here this weekend. Kinda busy tho, we just had a new kid, and building a new house. So much for my playtime...

;->

Talk to ya...
Randy

[drbugs]

Oh, I forgot to mention its very easy. I'm also running NFS with static mounts (instead of automounts) so my unix accounts at home all have a common physical location.

Once the new house is built, I get to build a new RAID server. Whoo-Hoo!

Randy

[drbugs]

Here is a couple of links on how to do NIS clients and servers http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO/index.html

Server http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO/ypserv.html

Note you don't have to reboot, just restart your yp daemons.

try it. If you have any questions, post, and I'll try to help you out.

Randy