[klug] Setting up NIS

[klug.member.lancer at xoxy.net]

Getting confused with the options now.

There are 3 computers running windowsd which will need to access a 
shared common directory (student work for windoiws - they need to know 
to drag stuff in there if they want it on the other Windows boxes, in 
folders of their oen names).

Apart from that, I understand NIS can make it so that wne a student logs 
in to any machine it fetches their /home/<name> directory from the main 
fileserver for the session as they log in, saving all work to that 
remote file server? This would make it look like they were logged in to 
the machine they are using but really works more like a think client as 
far as desktop settings, saving work and general permissions go.... NIS 
is correct for this is it?

The reason I'm asking is because someone I know from WLUG said that NIS 
could NOT do dynamically linked /home dirs, which confuses me because a 
few people in Klug said it would be ideal.

The set up was pretty much working in LDAP, but has had some annoying 
side effects, probably due moree to bad DNS arrangement and thing which 
may be a little over my head. The only problem is I only have one more 
week to get this set up, including cloning the drives to clients before 
school starts. Reality versus fantasy I guess.

I'm not flogging a dead horse if I try to make remote /home dirs using 
NIS am I?

As to Samba vs NFS, whether I should do on, the other, or both at the 
same time... I wouldn't know how to set up either until I take the 
plunge. Just hope more variations / complications don't keep popping up.

Lancer.




Darryl Alison - dalison at paraparaumu.net.nz wrote:

>I can try and help I have set up NIS and NFS but that was using SuSe I had
>no problems getting it to work.
>
>Sharing if you are using NIS use NFS usless you want to share to a windows
>environment then you will need samba.
>
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>[mailto:klug-bounces+dalison=paraparaumu.net.nz at linux.net.nz]On Behalf
>Of klug.member.lancer at xoxy.net
>Sent: Saturday, 1 October 2005 15:27
>To: klug at linux.net.nz
>Subject: [klug] Setting up NIS
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>I've just about got the "test boxes" ready for an install of NIS setup.
>It's a new install of Fedora Core 4 on all clients, undecided whether to
>settle on another FC4 (to keep them the same) or as suggested Clark
>Connect (but a school setup surely can't use the "home" edition?).
>
>...Have printed out a couple of versions of the NIS - LDP "howto".
>Unsuire of all the ins and outs at this stage and may want help on how I
>go abnout making the /home dirs reallocated, and also on setting up a
>couple of common shared directories for all users as well.
>
>Anyone think they would be able to help out if / where I get stuck?
>
>Oh well - here goes... about to run lastminute /yum/up2date/synaptic etc
>and then get to base system cloning. Hope it works...
>
>Lance.
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