Re: NIS Question Thanks!!

1999-06-26 Thread Anonymous
Yes. NIS is braindead. The amount of traffic is not that large. The problem you will see is that it takes longer for a prompt to return due to NIS when the network is heavily loaded and latencies rise. When you log in to a Sun box (most often NIS-ified) for example, you will see that it takes

Re: NIS Question Thanks!!

1999-06-26 Thread Nick Hibma
Yes. NIS is braindead. The amount of traffic is not that large. The problem you will see is that it takes longer for a prompt to return due to NIS when the network is heavily loaded and latencies rise. When you log in to a Sun box (most often NIS-ified) for example, you will see that it takes a

NIS Question Thanks!!

1999-06-25 Thread Anonymous
First of all, I would like to thank everyone who helped me with my NIS problems(A few days back). It is up and running now. For anyone else attempting to set up NIS, what really helped me was this website: http://www.realtime.net/sculpture/nis-startup.html For all those questioning the security

NIS Question Thanks!!

1999-06-25 Thread Nick LoPresti
First of all, I would like to thank everyone who helped me with my NIS problems(A few days back). It is up and running now. For anyone else attempting to set up NIS, what really helped me was this website: http://www.realtime.net/sculpture/nis-startup.html For all those questioning the security

Re: NIS Question

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
[ This is probably better aimed at -questions, but seeing as I'm here... ] On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 12:13:53AM -0400, Nick LoPresti wrote: > Here's my situation: > > 1. I would like to set up NIS on my network. > 2. I have one FreeBSD system(2.2.6) > 3. I have many other flavors of Unix on th

Re: NIS Question

1999-06-24 Thread Dominic Mitchell
[ This is probably better aimed at -questions, but seeing as I'm here... ] On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 12:13:53AM -0400, Nick LoPresti wrote: > Here's my situation: > > 1. I would like to set up NIS on my network. > 2. I have one FreeBSD system(2.2.6) > 3. I have many other flavors of Unix on thi

NIS Question

1999-06-23 Thread Anonymous
Here's my situation: 1. I would like to set up NIS on my network. 2. I have one FreeBSD system(2.2.6) 3. I have many other flavors of Unix on this network 4. I would like the FreeBSD system to export it's passwd and group files to the other machines How do I achieve this? Do I just run ypse

NIS Question

1999-06-23 Thread Nick LoPresti
Here's my situation: 1. I would like to set up NIS on my network. 2. I have one FreeBSD system(2.2.6) 3. I have many other flavors of Unix on this network 4. I would like the FreeBSD system to export it's passwd and group files to the other machines How do I achieve this? Do I just run ypser