GNU/Linux NIS tweaks was: FreeBSD Decision

[FRLinux]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 9:41 PM, James Phillips <anti_spam256 at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> It may have to do with what you are doing. At the NFS protocol level, they are compatible as far as I can tell. However, in my testing (trying to set up a file server in a heterogeneous environment) I had problems configuring NIS without editing Makefiles.

Ah right, see I was given a choice between NIS and LDAP back in 2003
and started with OpenLDAP (after many years using/administering NIS).
I have never looked back since.

Cheers,
Steph