alternatives to NIS and NFS

2004-08-02 Thread Paul William
Hi, I am in charge of a small office network. The server is running Debian stable with some testing packages and the desktops are running mandrake 10.0. Currently we are using NIS for authentication and NFS to share the home directories. I have been having some hassles with NIS and would like

Re: alternatives to NIS and NFS

2004-08-02 Thread John Summerfield
Paul William wrote: Hi, I am in charge of a small office network. The server is running Debian stable with some testing packages and the desktops are running mandrake 10.0. Currently we are using NIS for authentication and NFS to share the home directories. I have been having some hassles

Re: alternatives to NIS and NFS

2004-08-02 Thread John Schmidt
On Monday 02 August 2004 04:24 pm, Paul William wrote: Hi, I am in charge of a small office network. The server is running Debian stable with some testing packages and the desktops are running mandrake 10.0. Currently we are using NIS for authentication and NFS to share the home

Re: alternatives to NIS and NFS

2004-08-02 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 10:53, John Summerfield wrote: Paul William wrote: Hi, I am in charge of a small office network. The server is running Debian stable with some testing packages and the desktops are running mandrake 10.0. Currently we are using NIS for authentication and NFS

Re: alternatives to NIS and NFS

2004-08-02 Thread John Summerfield
Paul William wrote: NIS and NFS are differen tissues. What's your problem withNFS? Can't anyone with a knoppix cd create the right uids/users and mount the users home directory without any authentication? Fair comment. I control my LANs, but I see how I could lose control. If samba can

Re: alternatives to NIS and NFS

2004-08-02 Thread Mark Roach
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 15:14 +1200, Paul William wrote: Samba's not a goer. Doesn't do Unix permissions. It's a Windows/OS/2 sharing scheme. what about http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/smbfs/ . smbfs with unix extentions? Recent versions of samba and linux support cifs and unix

Re: alternatives to NIS and NFS

2004-08-02 Thread Paul William
Samba's not a goer. Doesn't do Unix permissions. It's a Windows/OS/2 sharing scheme. I was wondering about that ... There is nfs over ssl but its not yet ported to linux: http://www.crufty.net/Products/sNFS.html There is shfs, an ssh file system, but it seems too immuture to use on a

Re: alternatives to NIS and NFS

2004-08-02 Thread Mark Roach
On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 23:31 -0400, Mark Roach wrote: On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 15:14 +1200, Paul William wrote: Samba's not a goer. Doesn't do Unix permissions. It's a Windows/OS/2 sharing scheme. what about http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/smbfs/ . smbfs with unix extentions?

Re: alternatives to NIS and NFS

2004-08-02 Thread John Summerfield
Paul William wrote: Samba's not a goer. Doesn't do Unix permissions. It's a Windows/OS/2 sharing scheme. I was wondering about that ... There is nfs over ssl but its not yet ported to linux: http://www.crufty.net/Products/sNFS.html There is shfs, an ssh file system, but it seems too immuture

Re: Alternatives to NIS?

1998-01-05 Thread John Lines
John Goerzen wrote: At my location, we are dealing with a large Unix network composed of machines from multiple vendors -- Debian, RedHat, Sun, DEC, etc. We are moving largely in the direction of Debian and some of the legacy systems will be dropped within a few years anyway (due to Y2K

Re: Alternatives to NIS?

1997-12-31 Thread grin
On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, George Bonser wrote: The latest version of NIS uses encryption and authentication. I don't know if software is available for debian (or anyone other than Sun). Sun calls it NIS Plus. And you are best staying away from it unless you want to spend long hours getting

Re: Alternatives to NIS?

1997-12-31 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
grin wrote: On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, George Bonser wrote: The latest version of NIS uses encryption and authentication. I don't know if software is available for debian (or anyone other than Sun). Sun calls it NIS Plus. And you are best staying away from it unless you want to spend

Re: Alternatives to NIS?

1997-12-31 Thread grin
On Wed, 31 Dec 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: The latest version of NIS uses encryption and authentication. I don't know if software is available for debian (or anyone other than Sun). Sun calls it NIS Plus. And you are best staying away from it unless you want to spend long

Re: Alternatives to NIS?

1997-12-31 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
grin wrote: On Wed, 31 Dec 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: The latest version of NIS uses encryption and authentication. I don't know if software is available for debian (or anyone other than Sun). Sun calls it NIS Plus. And you are best staying away from it unless you

Re: Alternatives to NIS?

1997-12-22 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
John Goerzen wrote: At my location, we are dealing with a large Unix network composed of machines from multiple vendors -- Debian, RedHat, Sun, DEC, etc. We are moving largely in the direction of Debian and some of the legacy systems will be dropped within a few years anyway (due to Y2K

Alternatives to NIS?

1997-12-16 Thread John Goerzen
At my location, we are dealing with a large Unix network composed of machines from multiple vendors -- Debian, RedHat, Sun, DEC, etc. We are moving largely in the direction of Debian and some of the legacy systems will be dropped within a few years anyway (due to Y2K nonconformity). We have