On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 15:23, Jacob Albretsen wrote: > On Thursday 08 April 2004 11:31, Soren Harward wrote: > > > If everything is Linux, then use NFS instead. It's a lot easier to manage > > than Samba shares. It's most likely faster, too. > > What's the general opinion of ypserv compared to LDAP?
ypserv is generally the NIS server. NIS used to be called "Yellow Pages" until someone threatened to sue Sun over it. So they changed it to NIS (Network Information System). NIS was intended to be much more than a user password system. It could contain other data such as file mounts, mail aliases, and so forth. LDAP is a much better replacement for all this. Apple's (or rather NeXT's) netinfo was better than NIS and does the same thing, but not as good as LDAP. In future versions of OS X, netinfo will disappear, being replaced with LDAP, even for local non-network machines. Michael -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
