I've heard that NIS is less reliable. Can anyone verify?
Mandrake has a good HOWTO for LDAP.
NIS is pretty easy though. All you do is make sure you've got all the required daemons running and then set the name you want for your NIS domain and then run ./ypinit -m on the server and answer like 2 questions. Then make sure you have the client running on the client systems and modify 1 line in /etc/yp.conf on them and viola! ;-)
7 systems is plenty for NIS. I've done it for as few as 3. Save yourself some headaches, put in NIS. It's easy!
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