Cross Platform NIS?

[AlienRoadShow]

Hi folks:

Will a HP-UX 'NIS' server work with Solaris and/or AIX and/or LINUX 'NIS' clients?

Is there a cross platform UNIX utility outthere if not 'NIS'? RDIST?

[Steven E. Protter]

This thread may be of interest to you.

http://search.hp.com/redirect.html?url=http%3A//forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x7c740ea029a2d711abdc0090277a778c,00.html&qt=NIS+%2Bmultiple+%2BOS&hit=1

My itrc search might be of use.

http://us-support.external.hp.com/emse/bin/doc.pl/emse/bin/doc.pl/distrib_redir=0+1058970416|*?rn=25&source=7000&hpl=1&from=home&searchcategory=ALL&todo=search&origin=0&wpa=www1.itrc.hp.com%3A80&searchcriteria=allwords&searchtext=NIS++multiple+OS&esc=us-support3.external.hp.com&chkServStor=on&presort=rank

SEP

[AlienRoadShow]

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w/ 2nd link.

1st is OK and seems to imply that HP-UX with Solaris clients? What about AIX?

[Patrick Wallek]

Yes, NIS should work across platforms as long as you stay with the basic NIS maps.

I have worked in an environment with Sun and HP and the only problem we had was when we implemented a NIS map that Sun supported but HP did not.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

My best answer is "I think so". I have definitely used an HPUX NIS server with AIX and Sun Clients (as well as DEC, SGI, and UnixWare). Linux should work as a client but I would avoid it as a server (slave or master).

[Kevin Wright]

Never had a problem,except for when management thought it would be better to have Linux as a NIS master. Solaris didn't like it, so we scrapped that plan and used a Solaris 8 box the master. Linux clients had no problem.

I have used Sun master, and HPUX slaves with no problem.