[plug] nis success story

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 21:10:44 +0800, Sol <sol at terminus.net.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm back after a few months hiatus. I guess the geek side of me has been
> neglected. Hope you're all revelling in the ever greater success of OSS
> now that governments and corporations have started to pay attention.
> Yes, some have called us Linux fundamentalists. But there's nothing
> wrong with being a fundamentalist if you're right. :P
> 
> I just wanted to share a small success story. I have set up a small
> Linux network for the Buddhist Society in Nollamara (where I'm a member
> and volunteer). There's a server (Suse 8.2) and four workstation clients
> (Suse 9.1). We've had Linux running there for a couple of years now. The
> setup has changed a bit since we've had more, and newer hardware
> donated. Today I upgraded the clients and installed NIS. I didn't know
> much about it, and thought it would be complicated. It took 10 minutes.
> 
> Sadly, I don't have my genius to thank for this. Yast made this task
> dead easy. And using NIS & NFS with mounted /homes made the task of
> setting up the network much easier. So if you're _not_ a Linux Grand
> Cyclops Majordomo Mondo Guru but just a wannabe Linux grommit like me, I
> recommend Yast for all those daunting network admin tasks. And now that
> Suse have GPL'd it, you'll probably see it in your favourite distro
> soon. Well, in Debian anyways because they've started to port it
> (according to debian.org).

yast and deb, sweet. Thanks for that.

> 
> And if you need tips on setting up NIS & NFS, I don't mind offering a
> few tips, FWIW. :)
> 
> /sol
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Regards,
Russ