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
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).
>
> Since I plan to switch the whole network from windows to FreeBSD /
> Linux (only adding linux because
> 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 t
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
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
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