Daily Archives: 21/05/2012
Network Information Service (NIS) Configuration in Redhat Linux
Network Information Service (NIS) is a client - server configuration for sharing files, which forms the client as a group by hostname, domain name, etc
Here we are going to see, Network Information Service configuration
Required Packages for NIS server configuration
yp server
yp tools
yp bind
Make file
Services
ypserver
yppasswd
#vim /etc/sysconfig/network
HOSTNAME = hostname.domainname
NISDOMAIN = VIGNESH
:wq!
SERVER SIDE
#mkdir /rhome
#mkdir /rhome/sysname
#useradd -d /rhome/sysname/nisusername <nisusername>
#vim /etc/passwd
nisuser:X:
