NIS

[OldSchool]

Can someone explain NIS+ and what it will do for me?

Thanks

[VEL_1]

The following URL will give more details:

http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/rayh/solaris/NIS+_FAQ.html

[Ranjith_5]

Hi Tom,

NIS+ stands for Network Information Service Plus. It was designed to
replace NIS, and is a default naming service for Solaris. NIS+ can
provide limited support to NIS clients via a YP-compatibility mode.
NIS+ was mainly designed to address problems that NIS cannot address.

One important thing to note is that there is no relation between NIS+
and NIS. The commands and the overall structure of NIS+ are different
from NIS. In addition, some command syntax in NIS+ is different from
the NIS commands. NIS+ was designed from scratch.


By default, NIS+ ships with support for common Unix flat files. Here is the list of default databases which NIS+ supports; notice how most of them are also popular Unix flat files.


aliases auto_home auto_master bootparams ethers
group hosts netgroup netid netmasks
networks passwd protocols publickey rpc
services shadow timezone


See info here...


http://www.linux-nis.org/nisplus/

http://www.skendric.com/nisplus/

regards,
Syam

[OldSchool]

What files will NIS replicate accross servers from the NIS server to the clients. Will it replicate the /etc/hosts, /etc/passwd/, user directories such as /home/user?

Thanks

[Patrick Wallek]

It doesn't actually replicate files to the clients. The clients have processes running that talk to the NIS+ server to get the information that it needs.

You can use NIS+ for passwd file entries, group file entries, hosts file info (I think). You can use automounter to mount home directories from a central server, but NIS+ itself does not mount the directory, it just provides the path that you need.