Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 20, 2006 07:14 PM
We've been running NIS at home for our 5-10 machine Linux network for several years without any big problems. As it's all behind a firewall security hasn't really been paramount, easy maintainability has.
However, now that we got a little Mac Mini to play with I've yet to figure out how to get it to play along with NIS. I want to have the user's home directories mounted from our central file server (as the Linux systems do) as well as have all the same users that are in the NIS system. This isn't at all trivial to do with OS X, at least I haven't found a nice way to do it. Even getting OS X to mount NFS shares automatically is rocket magic.
So, NIS works fine, but other OS:es have a thing or two to learn about interoperability.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 20, 2006 07:14 PMHowever, now that we got a little Mac Mini to play with I've yet to figure out how to get it to play along with NIS. I want to have the user's home directories mounted from our central file server (as the Linux systems do) as well as have all the same users that are in the NIS system. This isn't at all trivial to do with OS X, at least I haven't found a nice way to do it. Even getting OS X to mount NFS shares automatically is rocket magic.
So, NIS works fine, but other OS:es have a thing or two to learn about interoperability.
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