NIS on a school network - need some clarifications

[Hugo Silva]

> NIS exports info from a passwd file.  So this will include user
> information and ect... groups can also be exported to... the means
> using NFS you can export a file system or place on a fs. Allowing you
> to export /usr/home or the like....

Point well taken, I didn't think on this. Should do the trick :-)

> If the school's whack jobs say you need specifically MS Access, you
> are screwed then since afaik it has not been ported to any thing
> except windows yet.
>

Tell me about it. Who knows if they'll end up using mysql & mysqlcc
instead :-P

Thanks for the suggestions