Civileme,
I assume you are supplying NFS services in a Unix centrc environment?
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
> >
> > Senior Designer / Technical Support
> > Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > The box said,
> > "Requires Windows 3.x or better",
> > so I got Linux.
> >
> > Registered Linux user #1696600
>
> 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.
