02-15-2005
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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Oreilly puts out a book on NIS/NFS
this book was last updated in 1992.
Has NIS/NFS change since then? Should I be looking at a better resource?
Thanks (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: SmartJuniorUnix
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all,
I just took over the admin role from someone and I wanna setup sendmail (just to send mail from the host) however, after I config all the resolv.conf, nssitch.conf, hosts file and when I try to send a mail out, after I punched ctl-D, it returned he following,
"NIS map mail.aliases... (2 Replies)
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3. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
We have a RedHat 8.0 NIS master, with a RedHat 8.0 NIS Slave.
We also have a small number of SUSE 9.1 and SUSE 10 machines here for evaluation.
However, no matter what i do, the SUSE machines will not talk to the NIS Servers.
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Discussion started by: fishsponge
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4. Solaris
I have a Solaris NIS master server to manage my Solaris NIS clients' passwd, group, shadow. I also have a EMC NAS.
The NAS is NFS mounted on my clients. I would like to use disk quota to manage my users.
From what I read from the SUN doc, quota can be implemented on the Solaris NFS client... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: izy100
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5. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Does anyone know how to assign rpc ports to NFS or NIS processes on Solaris please ?
Thanks,
Michael Chnader (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: mchnaider
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6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi all,
First of all, i am so sorry about my bad level in English writing.
I have some problem in linux and i hope the experts of this forum to help me if they have enough time to reply to me.
I have a scenario of configuring NIS and NFS in Redhat Linux environment such that user can login... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: pioneer
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7. Solaris
Hi, all.
I have a Solaris client here needs to bind to NIS server in another subnet. Following is the configuration i made on the client,
1) edit /etc/inet/hosts to add an entry of the NIS server -- nserver01
2) execute `domainname` to set local NIS domain to the domain of the NIS server.... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: sn_wukong
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8. Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions
hello,
I am using "microsoft services for UNIX adminstration" as an nfs/nis client in order to connect to a remote NFS folder with NIS authentication
nfs mount seems to fail on the authentication stage. I get the login box from the client, but any (NIS mapped) loging seems to reject me.... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: ynoatan99
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9. HP-UX
Hello All,
I am a newbee in HP UX wanted to know how to configure DNS,NFS,NIS,LDAP and LVM(mirror,sparing and multipathing) in HP UX 11iv2 and v3 and i did go through some of the docs on hp.com but i think those are for experience UX users and i am new to this so if some one could just mention... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: coolsami
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10. Solaris
Hi,
I have 2 systems - solaris 10
1 is nfs/nis server while other is nis/nfs client and user directories mounted on the client.
the authentication works fine. but I find out of all users, only 2 users directory is owned by some usernames who are local user on client system.
I checked... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: upengan78
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS
niserror
niserror(1) User Commands niserror(1)
NAME
niserror - display NIS+ error messages
SYNOPSIS
niserror error-num
DESCRIPTION
niserror prints the NIS+ error associated with status value error-num on the standard output. It is used by shell scripts to translate
NIS+ error numbers that are returned into text messages.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Using niserror
The following example prints the error associated with the error number 20:
example% niserror 20
Not Found, no such name
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWnisu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
nis+(1), nis_error(3NSL), attributes(5)
NOTES
NIS+ might not be supported in future releases of the SolarisTM Operating Environment. Tools to aid the migration from NIS+ to LDAP are
available in the Solaris 9 operating environment. For more information, visit http://www.sun.com/directory/nisplus/transition.html.
SunOS 5.10 10 Dec 2001 niserror(1)