From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 25 17:55:17 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 0223116A4D1 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 17:55:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from services.homebass.ca (services.homebass.ca [66.11.177.154]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 660DE43D31 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 17:55:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from liquid@homebass.ca) Received: (qmail 17573 invoked by uid 1201); 25 Aug 2004 17:57:22 -0000 Received: from liquid@homebass.ca by services.homebass.ca by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (clamdscan: 0.74. spamassassin: 2.63. Clear:RC:1(192.168.0.150):. Processed in 0.06806 secs); 25 Aug 2004 17:57:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO LAPTOP) (liquid@homebass.ca@192.168.0.150) by services.homebass.ca with SMTP; 25 Aug 2004 17:57:21 -0000 From: "LiQuiD" To: Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 13:55:21 -0400 Message-ID: <000001c48acc$b07fe630$9600a8c0@LAPTOP> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 In-Reply-To: <51209.81.84.174.8.1093444563.squirrel@81.84.174.8> Importance: Normal Subject: RE: 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 17:55:17 -0000 Hi Hugo, Look to NFS to do that for you. Here's a link to a page in the online handbook. NFS can do exactly what you want http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-nfs.ht ml > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Hugo Silva > Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 10:36 AM > To: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: NIS on a school network - need some clarifications > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org"