[TriLUG] NFS/NIS/Automount/BIND

[ryan]

+1 to that.  i've used it in both large and small office settings and it 
works great.  the learning curve is not that steep, and once you get the 
basics down pat, it's all downhill from there.

v/r
-rtw

Jon Carnes wrote:

>You are welcome to attend our next RHCE meeting (at HAHT in Raleigh). 
>I'll be presenting the ins and outs of NFS, NIS, Automount, and BIND
>(DNS) on RH9.
>
>NFS is very easy and secure (no matter what ChrisH may say!), NIS is
>less secure, but for a small company works great.  I ran NIS at a large
>company with about 80 servers and it was never compromised - of course
>there were only a few of us unix-type geeks hanging out there.
>
>NFS - allows you to share directories/files with other machines
>NIS - allows you to have a universal login across all your machines
>     (all your unix machines)
>Automount - mount remote (shared) drives automatically
>BIND - DNS = name service and IP look-ups
>
>On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 14:23, Jason Tower wrote:
>  
>
>>i believe NIS + NFS (and maybe autofs) is your friend and ally.  i'm 
>>sure there are several HOWTOs on the subject, a quick google search 
>>turned up the following:
>>
>>http://www.thelinuxpimp.com/main/print.php?sid=456
>>
>>which should be a decent start.
>>
>>jason
>>
>>
>>On Wednesday 23 April 2003 14:08, Tarus Balog wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Gang:
>>>
>>>Okay, I am still torn between Debian and Mandrake, but I appreciate
>>>the advice on both sides. Mandrake's security package may be what
>>>makes the decision for me.
>>>
>>>But I have another question. I want to set up a way to manage a group
>>>of users on a small group of about ten machines. I want a common home
>>>directory (nfs or smbfs), username and password.
>>>
>>>I really don't want to set up LDAP or anything like that, and I would
>>>be happy just copying files from one machine to another (like passwd,
>>>group, etc) since I won't be adding users very often, and there won't
>>>be many of them.
>>>
>>>Suggestions?
>>>
>>>-T
>>>      
>>>
>
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