From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 25 19:53:22 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 6FD8116A4CE for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 19:53:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hotmail.com (bay2-f17.bay2.hotmail.com [65.54.247.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DFEF43D41 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 19:53:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from missive@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 12:52:19 -0700 Received: from 208.186.54.187 by by2fd.bay2.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 19:52:15 GMT X-Originating-IP: [208.186.54.187] X-Originating-Email: [missive@hotmail.com] X-Sender: missive@hotmail.com From: "Lee Harr" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:22:15 +0430 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Aug 2004 19:52:19.0218 (UTC) FILETIME=[078B1F20:01C48ADD] 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 19:53:22 -0000 >I'm working on a project to change the network on my school to open source >software only (FreeBSD/Linux workstations only). > Excellent. Some lucky students there! >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 considered doing the same thing... using NFS mounts. My problem with it was security. I think NFS v4 has better security. I ended up using thin clients to one single server. Works quite well. Depends on how many clients you need though. >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) KDevelop is quite nice >- MS Access (?) There are a few still in early stages of development. I think that Kexi (http://www.koffice.org/kexi/) and rekall (http://www.rekallrevealed.org/) are the most access-like, but there are others too... > >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) > I think that's backwards, really. The database that comes with access is pretty weak, but many people use access as a front end to better database engines like postgresql. _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail