so it means that depending on the situation or environment....NIS will be installed.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 10:24:16AM +0530, Pankaj Jangid wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 01 January 1970 05:29, akshaysalkar wrote: > > > is it that if DNS is configured NFS/NIS is not at all required?? > > No. > DNS, NFS and NIS all these serves different purposes. > > DNS is used for mapping domain names to IP addresses. We can use that in our > development machines for Caching of these mappings. > > NFS is Networked File System. Using this we can mount some share on some other > networked pc on to some directory in our pc. > > NIS is uses for making a Windows NT like environment. Means a Common NIS > server will be used for authentication and all other machines will serve as > client machines (same as winnt network). Also we can do cascading here; > means there can be more then one NIS server in a network but only one will be > master and others -- slave servers. This funda is now adopted in in window > 2000 advanced server -- they call it Active directory hierarchy or something > like that. NIS (network information system or yellow pages as it was once known) existed when Windows NT was not even conceived. So comparing it with NT gives one the impression that NIS sort of imitates NT. The other way round may be true. Nagarjuna _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers Get Your Private, Free E-mail from Indiatimes at http://email.indiatimes.com Buy Music, Video, CD-ROM, Audio-Books and Music Accessories from http://www.planetm.co.in _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
