Help for Unix System Administrators.
Intermediate Level Users.
This book describes two tools that are essential to distributed computing environments: the Network File System (NFS) and the Network Information System (NIS). The NFS is the standard method for sharing files between different computer systems; and NIS provides a distributed database service for managing the most important administrative files.
This book provides a comprehensive discussion of how to plan, set up, and debug an NFS network, and covers the NFS automounter, network security issues, diskless workstations, and PC/NFS. The book also tells you how to set up and use NIS to simplify network management, and how to use NIS to manage your own database applications, ranging from a simple telephone list to controlling access to network services. The book is ideal for anyone managing or setting up a network of Unix systems.
