On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, akshaysalkar wrote: > so it means that depending on the situation or environment....NIS will be installed.
yes, if you have u need centralised administration of users u will need NIS and NFS is required to implement NIS. > > NIS is uses for making a Windows NT like environment. NIS has nothing to do with Windows nor to emulate a windows like environment, in fact Windows NT implements a system called PDC which is inspired from "Yellow Pages". Note, most of the NIS tools and also the server start with "yp", like ypserver, ypclient, ypxfrd, ypinit, etc... > > 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. > 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 -- �hush�n T�w�r� _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
