A Newbie on NIS
2007-12-25 11:48:00
Severals days ago, I asked some questions about how to setup NIS. By now ,
I have got a lot of help.Many thanks to who helped me. Now, i summary it.
My original question is:
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> I want to setup NIS on our lab's compter network. There are 7 unix machines
> in our lab , i want config the Sun Sparc II ( run with SunOS4.1.3) as the
> NIS master server , another Sun Sparc I+ (run with SunOS4.1.1) as NIS
> secondary server , and the rest 5 Pentium-133 PCs (run with Solaris 2.5/X86)
> as NIS client.
>
> I have no experience about setup NIS, and no idea of how to setup.
> Would you please give me some advises about it? Or any tutorial articles
> about it?Any wed site contains these articles will be very appriciated.
>
Help:
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If you do not have the Sun Network Administration manual or the NIS book
try looking at the NISkit documentation on http://docs.sun.com.
This explain the use of NIS aka YP (as opposed to NIS+) under
solaris 2.x. The setup for SunOS 4.x is not too different.
I hope this helps
Anthony Worrall
The University of Reading,
Department of Computer Science,
Whiteknights, PO Box 225
Reading,
Berkshire, UK
RG6 6AY
Tel: +44 (0)1734 318610
Fax: +44 (0)1734 751994
Email: Anthony.Worrall@Reading.ac.uk
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Take a look at http://www.polaris.net/ugu/
It contains some information on NIS and NIS+.
> Regards,
> Derek Mallard Email: dmallard@shl.com
> Technical Architect Voice Mail: (403)412-2618
> SHL Systemhouse (403)423-4730
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By the book titled "Managing NFS and NIS" from O'Reilly and Associates.
www.ora.com
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Jason L. Harrell UNIX System Administrator
John Steffen Associates
St. Louis, MO 63146 jason@jsa.com
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Ye Feng,
There is a O'Relly book "NIS and NFS" which has very detailed the procedures
about settting up NIS server client. The basic steps are outlined as following:
1. Created maps: This include passwd, group, protocols, aliases, services,
netmasks, hosts, etc. You can copy these maps from /etc/directory and put them
in a separate place, such as /var/yp/src
2. Modify /var/yp/Makefile to change the "DIR=" to reflect the map location,
for example
DIR=/var/yp/src
3. cat "<your domainname>" > /etc/defaultdomain
4. Run "domainname <your domainname"
5. Run "/usr/etc/yp/ypinit -m" to setup the server. ypinit will build the NIS
maps.
Reboot the server
6. On the client machines, setup domains:
cat "<your domainname>" > /etc/defaultdomain
domainname <your domainname>
Reboot the client.
Hope this helps,
Susan
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First, determine what your domain name and put them in /etc/defaultdomain
file then run "domainname `cat /etc/defaultdomain`". On the master, run
ypinit -m, and it'll ask you a few simple question. On the server, run
ypbind first and then run ypinit -s <master> and again, it'll ask you a
few simple questions. After that, on each clients, you can simply run
ypinit -c or simply reboot.
-- Joel
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Joel Lee <jlee@thomas.com> | Network Administrator/System Programmer
Thomas Brothers Inc., Irvine, California | http://www.thomas.com
Disclaimer: The statements are my personal viewpoints only
and has nothing to do with anyone, even my employer.
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