From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 14 11:22:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from westhost15.westhost.net (westhost15.westhost.net [216.71.84.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B78C837B400 for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 11:22:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from beast (h0020af68b314.ne.mediaone.net [24.91.189.27]) by westhost15.westhost.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA30985 for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 13:32:32 -0600 From: "Paul A. Howes" To: Subject: Laptop Computer As NIS Client... Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 14:22:26 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0075_01C07E35.6B2531A0" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0075_01C07E35.6B2531A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 ------=_NextPart_000_0075_01C07E35.6B2531A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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As I delve = more and more=20 in to networking, I seem to aquire more and more computers. Why am = I not=20 surprised at this? :-) I would like to get all of them = working with=20 NIS to make administration simpler, but upon reading The Handbook, = discovered=20 that NIS clients don't work if the NIS server cannot be=20 found.

I have a = laptop computer=20 that I would like to use in a NIS environment, but being a mobile = system,=20 it would be frequently disconnected from the network. Would the = correct=20 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=20 server, and the NIS database is pushed to the local slave server when it = is=20 connected to the network, it should be able to stay in sync with the = master=20 server.

I would = appreciate any=20 thought on this. Also, please e-mail me directly, as I am not yet=20 subscribed to this mailing list.

Thank you, in = advance!

Paul A. Howes

pahowes@fair-ware.com

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