On Sunday 25 November 2007 07:26:26 am Billie Walsh wrote: > OK, toss me a challenge. *<[:oD > > Quote from http://www.linux-nis.org/nis/: [ Google is my friend ] > The Network Information Service (NIS) provides a simple network lookup > service consisting of databases and processes. > > Now I know a little bit about it. In our particular home network it > wouldn't be usefull. I can see where it could be in different circumstances > > I'm not so sure that "Centralized User Accounts" would have told me any > more than "NIS Server" did. I'm sure that IF I had ever found a need for > it either would have been fine. My first inclination when finding I need > something, but don't really know what it is, is to start using Google > and/or Wikipedia. After a time I can usually track something down that > will tell me what I need. Then another search will usually turn up the > process of getting it and setting it up. The fun is in the hunt.
From this you can see advantage to have link http://www.linux-nis.org/nis/ included in help, It would save you Google search, and make sure that you get relevant web page, not some other page that talks about NIS. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]