Not really. NIS+ is good for some handy extra features, but it's a pig to
administer. For such a small network, I think NIS would be a much better
idea. Quicker/easier to setup, not as much to administer. Don't get me
wrong, NIS+ _is_ good, but I wouldn't use it unless it had some features
that I specifically wanted.
To turn on NIS, once you've setup at least one as a NIS master, all you need
to do is edit some files.
vi /etc/nsswitch.conf and modify appropriately (based on /etc/nsswitch.nis
<- example file).
run 'ypinit -c'
then start the ypbind process (/usr/lib/netsvc/yp/ypstart <- think that's
slightly wrong, but if you grep for ypstart in /etc/init.d you'll see it in
one of the files in there).
Hope this helps...
Ciao for now...
Quote:> I have several workstations running Solaris 2.6 and 7 that I need to turn
> into NIS clients. I don't have immediate physical access to each
individual
> machine, so I can't do the regular sys-unconfig on each one, is it
possible
> to do it remotely?
> Slightly off topic, is NIS+ better than NIS? There are only about a dozen
> machines in my little group of workstations, and I use NIS because I was
more
> familiar with it.Would NIS+ have any advantage over NIS in this situation?
> Thanks in advance.
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