NIS on a school network - need some clarifications
Hi, I'm working on a project to change the network on my school to open source software only (FreeBSD/Linux workstations only). I knew about NIS from readings of the handbook years ago, so I revisited it today, but there' is something that's missing. I understand the NIS accounts reside on the master server and I have to add users on the master server. But then, users on workstations will have their home directories etc referring only to the local machine. I want to have users get their home directories from a central location too. Is there any 'official' process to make this work, with NIS if possible ? I plan to have a 'student-shared-area' that will be NFS mounted on every workstation on boot, but I want each user to have their files available, wherever they login from. Also, I assume there is no problem in using NIS accounts with X. From the logic of it, there shouldn't be any problems. A few last questions, Since I plan to switch the whole network from windows to FreeBSD / Linux (only adding linux because other people want it :-P), I'll need to substitute the following applications: - Visual C++ (anjuta) - MS Access (?) I don't know much about access, but I believe it's possible to have a ms-access database server.. if that's the case, is there a open source client with a similiar GUI to ms access available ? (note: mysql/etc won't do, the school program says ms access, so we need something similiar) Any insight on these issues is most welcome Regards, Hugo ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: NIS on a school network - need some clarifications
Hi Hugo, Look to NFS to do that for you. Here's a link to a page in the online handbook. NFS can do exactly what you want http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-nfs.ht ml -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hugo Silva Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 10:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NIS on a school network - need some clarifications Hi, I'm working on a project to change the network on my school to open source software only (FreeBSD/Linux workstations only). I knew about NIS from readings of the handbook years ago, so I revisited it today, but there' is something that's missing. I understand the NIS accounts reside on the master server and I have to add users on the master server. But then, users on workstations will have their home directories etc referring only to the local machine. I want to have users get their home directories from a central location too. Is there any 'official' process to make this work, with NIS if possible ? I plan to have a 'student-shared-area' that will be NFS mounted on every workstation on boot, but I want each user to have their files available, wherever they login from. Also, I assume there is no problem in using NIS accounts with X. From the logic of it, there shouldn't be any problems. A few last questions, Since I plan to switch the whole network from windows to FreeBSD / Linux (only adding linux because other people want it :-P), I'll need to substitute the following applications: - Visual C++ (anjuta) - MS Access (?) I don't know much about access, but I believe it's possible to have a ms-access database server.. if that's the case, is there a open source client with a similiar GUI to ms access available ? (note: mysql/etc won't do, the school program says ms access, so we need something similiar) Any insight on these issues is most welcome Regards, Hugo ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NIS on a school network - need some clarifications
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:36:03 - (GMT) Hugo Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm working on a project to change the network on my school to open source software only (FreeBSD/Linux workstations only). I knew about NIS from readings of the handbook years ago, so I revisited it today, but there' is something that's missing. I understand the NIS accounts reside on the master server and I have to add users on the master server. But then, users on workstations will have their home directories etc referring only to the local machine. I want to have users get their home directories from a central location too. Is there any 'official' process to make this work, with NIS if possible ? I plan to have a 'student-shared-area' that will be NFS mounted on every workstation on boot, but I want each user to have their files available, wherever they login from. Also, I assume there is no problem in using NIS accounts with X. From the logic of it, there shouldn't be any problems. NIS exports info from a passwd file. So this will include user information and ect... groups can also be exported to... the means using NFS you can export a file system or place on a fs. Allowing you to export /usr/home or the like A few last questions, Since I plan to switch the whole network from windows to FreeBSD / Linux(only adding linux because other people want it :-P), I'll need to substitute the following applications: - Visual C++ (anjuta) - MS Access (?) Just browse till you find a few you like... I personally like xemacs... eclipse and a few others may be a possability too. For Databases, there are quite a few aviable... check them out till you find one that fits what you need. I don't know much about access, but I believe it's possible to have a ms-access database server.. if that's the case, is there a open source client with a similiar GUI to ms access available ? (note: mysql/etc won't do, the school program says ms access, so we need something similiar) If the school's whack jobs say you need specifically MS Access, you are screwed then since afaik it has not been ported to any thing except windows yet. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NIS on a school network - need some clarifications
NIS exports info from a passwd file. So this will include user information and ect... groups can also be exported to... the means using NFS you can export a file system or place on a fs. Allowing you to export /usr/home or the like Point well taken, I didn't think on this. Should do the trick :-) If the school's whack jobs say you need specifically MS Access, you are screwed then since afaik it has not been ported to any thing except windows yet. Tell me about it. Who knows if they'll end up using mysql mysqlcc instead :-P Thanks for the suggestions ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NIS on a school network - need some clarifications
On Wednesday 25 August 2004 09:36 am, Hugo Silva wrote: Hi, I'm working on a project to change the network on my school to open source software only (FreeBSD/Linux workstations only). snip Since I plan to switch the whole network from windows to FreeBSD / Linux (only adding linux because other people want it :-P), I'll need to substitute the following applications: - Visual C++ (anjuta) - MS Access (?) I don't know much about access, but I believe it's possible to have a ms-access database server.. if that's the case, is there a open source client with a similiar GUI to ms access available ? (note: mysql/etc won't do, the school program says ms access, so we need something similiar) Any insight on these issues is most welcome Regards, Hugo Hugo, You're out of luck where MS Access is concerned. FreeBSD comes with several outstanding database servers; but nothing that matches MS Access as a RAD for database clients or a tool for complex, ad hoc analysis. Access makes for a lousy server; but excels as a GUI client. You can install MS Access on Linux using Codeweaver's Crossover Office (a WINE thing); but it seems to have memory limitations, and crashes under moderate workloads. MS Access (Win2K or XP Pro) + PostgreSQL (FreeBSD) is a very powerful combination. Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NIS on a school network - need some clarifications
I'm working on a project to change the network on my school to open source software only (FreeBSD/Linux workstations only). Excellent. Some lucky students there! I knew about NIS from readings of the handbook years ago, so I revisited it today, but there' is something that's missing. I understand the NIS accounts reside on the master server and I have to add users on the master server. But then, users on workstations will have their home directories etc referring only to the local machine. I considered doing the same thing... using NFS mounts. My problem with it was security. I think NFS v4 has better security. I ended up using thin clients to one single server. Works quite well. Depends on how many clients you need though. Since I plan to switch the whole network from windows to FreeBSD / Linux (only adding linux because other people want it :-P), I'll need to substitute the following applications: - Visual C++ (anjuta) KDevelop is quite nice - MS Access (?) There are a few still in early stages of development. I think that Kexi (http://www.koffice.org/kexi/) and rekall (http://www.rekallrevealed.org/) are the most access-like, but there are others too... I don't know much about access, but I believe it's possible to have a ms-access database server.. if that's the case, is there a open source client with a similiar GUI to ms access available ? (note: mysql/etc won't do, the school program says ms access, so we need something similiar) I think that's backwards, really. The database that comes with access is pretty weak, but many people use access as a front end to better database engines like postgresql. _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
