Subject: Re: Netatalk NIS
From: andrew morgan (morgan@orst.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 29 2000 - 11:45:03 EST
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Lars Grobe wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Who has any experiences with Netatalk and NIS?
>
> We have about 300 user accounts on our server and would like to
> distribute the file services over two servers (we have some old
> Compaq-Servers with very slow processors, but nice RAID hardware).
> As we need Samba and Netatalk on our servers, I think it would be
> good to use NIS. I know that Samba can handle NIS-homes with few
> overhead, it doesn't need to use NFS, but passes the whole process
> to the machine holding the user's home.
>
> Is this possible with netatalk, too? And are there any installations of
> Samba and Netatalk running on NIS-systems?
We run netatalk on a Solaris machine which is an NIS client. 17,000
users. No problem.
Andy
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