Thoughts for the meeting

[Robert Dege]

You'll have to keep your HOME directory local, unless you plan to login as
a different user when you're not connected via NIS.

You can always use automounter & NFS to automatically make file servers
available, and appear as local drives.

You can circumvent the whole password ordeal by making your laptop a slave
server.  This way, NIS will always be available on the laptop, whether
you're connected to your local LAN, or not.

-Rob

> I was recently reading the NIS HOW-TO in order to learn what NIS was.  I tore
> apart my NT server adn ahve decided to be exclusively a Linux Domain (with a
> Win box for games!) at home.  NIS seemed liek a fine idea!.  I then relaized I
> was not sure what to do with my laptops!  If NIS allows my Home directory to be
> an NFS out onthe netowrk this woudl allow me to have much more drive space then
> I have on my machine (a good thing) but I also want the same program settings
> when my laptop is disconnected or on another network.
>
> Has anyone used NIS client on a laptop?  How do you keep a local profile in
> sync with a NIS profile?
>
> Ideas .. possible topic of discussion for the next meeting?  Any NIS pros out
> there using NIS now in a corporate environment?
>
> JJN
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Dege

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