Joseph,
Webmin isn't really new no. It's been around since at least 96. It's just recently
come of age though. It's actually a very nice interface for most of the common
interface tasks that you have to do on a Linux machine. If you haven't worked with it
or seen it in action, it would be worth your time to check it out.
--T.
"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote:
> 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
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> The box said,
> "Requires Windows 3.x or better",
> so I got Linux.
>
> Registered Linux user #1696600
