Hi Theo,
You can look for the NIS tutorials at
http://www.mandrakecampus.org
and
http://www.mandrakeuser.org
I followed those tutorials tu set up NIS on my local area network
and it is working fine. I hope this helps. Greetings from Mexico.
Fabian.
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Theo Brinkman wrote:
> I've got a small home network with the IP addresses assigned by DNS
> running on the Cisco 675 ADSL router I use for net access. It's getting
> to be a bit of a hassle to keep updating the /etc/hosts file on all 4
> systems, as it seems to occasionally switch the C-level of the IP
> addressess it dishes out (ie: *.*.100.* to *.*.120.*). This change also
> messes with my ability to telnet to the other machines because my
> host.allow file contains the actual IP addresses within the range the
> router dishes out.
>
> I'm looking to set up NIS on my server to make my life easier in this
> regard, but I'm still new to linux system administration, and the help I
> can find seems a bit vague. Can anybody point me to a good step-by-step
> walk-through of the process?
>
> - Theo
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