All About Administering Nis+ (2nd Edition)

NIS+ (Network Information Service Plus) is a new network information service that is part of SunSoft's Open Network Computing Plus (ONC+) suite of products. This is the authoritative guide to administering NIS+. The book explains the structure of NIS+--what it has to offer and how it is put together, and provides guidelines for setting up NIS+.

NIS+ (Network Information Service Plus(TM) ) is a new network information service that is part of SunSoft's Open Network Computing Plus (ONC+(TM) ) suite of products -- which is installed on over 3.1 million nodes worldwide. NIS+ is available on Solaris(TM) 2.x -- whether Intel(TM) -or SPARC(TM) - based, and is portable to other operating systems that support ONC RPC or ONC+ transport- independent RPC (TI-RPC(TM) ). This is THE authoritative guide to administering NIS+. Compares NIS+ to DNS and NIS; explains the structure of NIS+ -- what it has to offer and how it is put together; provides guidelines for making a transition from NIS to NIS+ and for setting up NIS+ from scratch; presents step-by-step instructions for setting up the components of an NIS+ namespace, from the root domain to individual clients; describes the NIS+ commands (syntax and details) in terms of administration categories; and contains Pre-Setup Worksheets, a list of NIS+ Scripts Error Messages, and a discussion of the NIS+ API. For system and network administrators, and for MIS managers (who need to determine whether NIS+ offers what they need).