Civileme wrote:
> "Joseph S. Gardner" wrote:
>
> > Todd Swain wrote:
> >
> > > Joseph,
> > > NFS and NIS are completely different. NFS is a type of file sharing and
> > > NIS is a form of network based user management. They can be used in
> > > conjunction with each other, or seperatley.
> > >
> > > --T.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "Joseph S. Gardner" wrote:
> >
> > > > OK, the time has come to sit down and consolidate all my
> > > > machines. I
> > > > want to centralize my administration and user setup's, etc..
> > > > is the
> > > > "proper" method NSF or NIS or both/other??
> > > >
> > > > BTW what IS the difference anyway??
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > --
> > > > Joseph S Gardner
> >
> > Hmm, based on this and further exploits of discovery then it seems that the
> > "proper" method I would use is to setup NFS to allow file sharing and common
> > directory paths (/home) and then run NIS on top of this to keep administration
> > central. Is this correct??
> >
> > --
> > Joseph S Gardner
>
> NIS will keep passwords coordinated. To make "administration" central, you might
> consider adding webmin on each user machine and having it listen oonly to the
> administration IP. Then setting up cron jobs, executing custom commands, forcing
> reboots on frozen keyboards (without having dirty buffers), etc. Can be done from
> one location which does not need to be the server. (In fact, I recommend it is
> the machine before the SysAdmin).
>
> Civileme
>
> Example: I use nfs to give users a common directory f\or exchanging files and to
> download software, and I use nfs to give each user an individual backup area on
> the main server. One of them used the backup area. Now every day, there are
> cron jobs beginning mid-afternoon and running about 5 minutes apart to copy user
> material on individual stations to their respective backup areas. I did this
> without touching a single user machine other than my own.
Is webmin something new?? I've only just started seeing it in the newsgroups but
haven't been paying attention to it. Guess I'll have some more reading to do. heavy
sigh....
--
Joseph S Gardner
Senior Designer / Technical Support
Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH
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The box said,
"Requires Windows 3.x or better",
so I got Linux.
Registered Linux user #1696600
