Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 14:22:26 -0500 From: "Paul A. Howes" <pahowes@fair-ware.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Laptop Computer As NIS Client... Message-ID: <BCEFKOJHNDEAJONMKMHEAEBICGAA.pahowes@fair-ware.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] All- As I delve more and more in to networking, I seem to aquire more and more computers. Why am I not surprised at this? :-) I would like to get all of them working with NIS to make administration simpler, but upon reading The Handbook, discovered that NIS clients don't work if the NIS server cannot be found. I have a laptop computer that I would like to use in a NIS environment, but being a mobile system, it would be frequently disconnected from the network. Would the correct answer be to make it a NIS slave server as well as a client? I was thinking that if the client portion authenticates against the local slave server, and the NIS database is pushed to the local slave server when it is connected to the network, it should be able to stay in sync with the master server. I would appreciate any thought on this. Also, please e-mail me directly, as I am not yet subscribed to this mailing list. Thank you, in advance! -- Paul A. Howes pahowes@fair-ware.com [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4611.1300" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><SPAN class=500321419-14012001><FONT face=Georgia>All-</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=500321419-14012001><FONT face=Georgia></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=500321419-14012001><FONT face=Georgia>As I delve more and more in to networking, I seem to aquire more and more computers. Why am I not surprised at this? :-) I would like to get all of them working with NIS to make administration simpler, but upon reading The Handbook, discovered that NIS clients don't work if the NIS server cannot be found.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=500321419-14012001><FONT face=Georgia></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=500321419-14012001><FONT face=Georgia>I have a laptop computer that I would like to use in a NIS environment, but being a mobile system, it would be frequently disconnected from the network. Would the correct answer be to make it a NIS slave server as well as a client? I was thinking that if the client portion authenticates against the local slave server, and the NIS database is pushed to the local slave server when it is connected to the network, it should be able to stay in sync with the master server.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=500321419-14012001><FONT face=Georgia></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=500321419-14012001><FONT face=Georgia>I would appreciate any thought on this. Also, please e-mail me directly, as I am not yet subscribed to this mailing list.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=500321419-14012001><FONT face=Georgia></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=500321419-14012001><FONT face=Georgia>Thank you, in advance!</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=500321419-14012001><FONT face=Georgia></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=500321419-14012001> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia size=2>--</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia size=2>Paul A. Howes</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia size=2><A href="mailto:pahowes@fair-ware.com">pahowes@fair-ware.com</A></FONT></DIV></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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