NIS on a school network - need some clarifications

[LiQuiD]

Hi Hugo,

Look to NFS to do that for you.  Here's a link to a page in the online
handbook.  NFS can do exactly what you want

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-nfs.ht
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Hugo Silva
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 10:36 AM
> To: questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: NIS on a school network - need some clarifications
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm working on a project to change the network on my school to open
source
> software only (FreeBSD/Linux workstations only).
> 
> I knew about NIS from readings of the handbook years ago, so I
revisited
> it today, but there' is something that's missing. I understand the NIS
> accounts reside on the master server and I have to add users on the
master
> server. But then, users on workstations will have their home
directories
> etc referring only to the local machine.
> 
> I want to have users get their home directories from a central
location
> too. Is there any 'official' process to make this work, with NIS if
> possible ?
> 
> I plan to have a 'student-shared-area' that will be NFS mounted on
every
> workstation on boot, but I want each user to have their files
available,
> wherever they login from.
> 
> Also, I assume there is no problem in using NIS accounts with X. From
the
> logic of it, there shouldn't be any problems.
> 
> A few last questions,
> 
> Since I plan to switch the whole network from windows to FreeBSD /
Linux
> (only adding linux because other people want it :-P), I'll need to
> substitute the following applications:
> 
> - Visual C++ (anjuta)
> - MS Access  (?)
> 
> I don't know much about access, but I believe it's possible to have a
> ms-access database server.. if that's the case, is there a open source
> client with a similiar GUI to ms access available ? (note: mysql/etc
won't
> do, the school program says ms access, so we need something similiar)
> 
> 
> Any insight on these issues is most welcome
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hugo
> 
> 
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