Re: alternatives to NIS and NFS
Paul William wrote:
Hi,
I am in charge of a small office network. The server is running Debian
stable with some testing packages and the desktops are running
mandrake 10.0.
Currently we are using NIS for authentication and NFS to share the
home directories.
I have been having some hassles with NIS and would like to upgrade to
a more modern system.
Are there any alternatives to NFS and NIS?
NIS and NFS are differen tissues. What's your problem withNFS?
For authentication, take a look at LDAP. I mean to.
As long as it not to complex to setup and is fairly easy to administer
its fine. X is not on the server so all admin takes place over
ssh.Security is an issue.
It is safe to assume that there will not be any windows clients on the
network, ever :) There is one osx ibook being used but it does not
need to 'login' to the network.
OSX should be able to authenticate against LDAP. Watch your IUDs tho.
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Cheers
John
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