On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, akshaysalkar wrote:
so it means that depending on the situation or environment....NIS will be installed.
yes, if you have u need centralised administration of users u will need NIS and NFS is required to implement NIS.
NIS is uses for making a Windows NT like environment.
NIS has nothing to do with Windows nor to emulate a windows like environment, in fact Windows NT implements a system called PDC which is inspired from "Yellow Pages".
Note, most of the NIS tools and also the server start with "yp", like ypserver, ypclient, ypxfrd, ypinit, etc...
Means a Common NIS server will be used for authentication and all other machines will serve as client machines (same as winnt network). Also we can do cascading here; means there can be more then one NIS server in a network but only one will be master and others -- slave servers.
NIS (network information system or yellow pages as it was once known) existed when Windows NT was not even conceived. So comparing it with NT gives one the impression that NIS sort of imitates NT. The other way round may be true.
Nagarjuna