From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 25 17:38:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0607316A4D0 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 17:38:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.revolutionsp.com (ganymede.revolutionsp.com [64.246.0.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA37643D2D for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 17:38:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from klr@6s-gaming.com) Received: from mail.revolutionsp.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.revolutionsp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8D5515CA0 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:36:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from 81.84.174.8 (SquirrelMail authenticated user klr@6s-gaming.com); by mail.revolutionsp.com with HTTP; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:36:03 -0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <51209.81.84.174.8.1093444563.squirrel@81.84.174.8> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:36:03 -0000 (GMT) From: "Hugo Silva" To: questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: NIS on a school network - need some clarifications X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 17:38:18 -0000 Hi, I'm working on a project to change the network on my school to open source software only (FreeBSD/Linux workstations only). I knew about NIS from readings of the handbook years ago, so I revisited it today, but there' is something that's missing. I understand the NIS accounts reside on the master server and I have to add users on the master server. But then, users on workstations will have their home directories etc referring only to the local machine. I want to have users get their home directories from a central location too. Is there any 'official' process to make this work, with NIS if possible ? I plan to have a 'student-shared-area' that will be NFS mounted on every workstation on boot, but I want each user to have their files available, wherever they login from. Also, I assume there is no problem in using NIS accounts with X. From the logic of it, there shouldn't be any problems. A few last questions, Since I plan to switch the whole network from windows to FreeBSD / Linux (only adding linux because other people want it :-P), I'll need to substitute the following applications: - Visual C++ (anjuta) - MS Access (?) I don't know much about access, but I believe it's possible to have a ms-access database server.. if that's the case, is there a open source client with a similiar GUI to ms access available ? (note: mysql/etc won't do, the school program says ms access, so we need something similiar) Any insight on these issues is most welcome Regards, Hugo