Paul Lussier said: >In a message dated: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 08:57:32 EST >Rich Payne said: > >>It's not RedHat specific, but O'Reilly has an NFS and NIS book. That's how >>I got started (it also helps to have a few machines you can set it up on). > >I have to agree with Rich, the only decent book out there on NFS/NIS >is the O'Reilly book. I'm not sure how out-dated it is. The version >I have is getting on in age, and I don't know if they ever came out >with an update version.
Just did. Finally! >The version I have is quite SunOS-centric, and somethings don't apply >to Linux very well, like the automounter section, and it's discussion >of direct vs. indirect maps. Linux's automounter only supports >indirect maps, not direct. Direct maps really can't be admin'd from NIS. SunOS won't umount direct maps w/o rebooting. It will with indirect maps. And they're slower then indirect maps. You have to create the mount point on all your systems with direct maps. There's some other quirks with direct maps too. I converted a site from direct maps to indirect with symbolic links, ugh. It's easier to admin the links though. Just get your users to type 'cd /mnt/dir' instead of 'cd /mnt; cd dir' :-) > >But that's all NFS related stuff, not really NIS :) >-- -- ------- Tom Buskey ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
