Thoughts for the meeting

[JJ Neff]

The slave server answers the question of password syncing (I'm thinking PDC -
BDC right?)

But I think what you are inferring is that if I log on as a seperate user and
want all the same program settings I need to somehow copy the .* files from all
the apps I use as an NIS user to the ~/ of the user I log on as when not
connected right?

JJN
--- Robert Dege <rdege at cse.Buffalo.EDU> wrote:
> 
> 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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