Re: NFS/NIS support
On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Matthew Majka wrote:
> I very new to Debian (maybe 24 hours) although I have quite
> a bit of experience with SGI's and Sun's. I have a few
> questions I was hoping someone could answer for me.
We'll sure try. Always glad to have a new convert :)
> 1) I've seen that NFS is supported on Debian, but I haven't
> seen any mention of an automounter. Is there one?
We actually have two :). There is amd, which I believe supports Sun
automounter maps. There is also autofs, although that requires you to be
running a late 2.1.x-series kernel and takes a different kind of map file.
> 2) If so, does it support NIS maps?
Yes, amd at least supports NIS maps
> 3) The reason we set this machine up is to become familiar
> with what Linux can give us. Management wants to buy cheap
> hardware (PeeCee), but we are unwilling to use the "cheap"
> OS that they come with (Windoze). I'm interested in window
> manager suggestions. The SGI's use a modified mwm from OSF,
> so I know that's not a freebie. Is there one that will give
> user's the look and feel of a commercial workstation?
There are over half a dozen different window managers packaged with
Debian, as well as the potential to buy CDE from RedHat for a totally
commercial feel.
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Scott K. Ellis <storm@gate.net> http://www.gate.net/~storm/
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