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Managing NFS and NIS, 2nd Edition
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Author: Mike Eisler, Ricardo Labiaga, Hal Stern
List Price: $39.95
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ISBN: 1565925106
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates (15 August, 2001)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 75,374
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
NFS, NIS and automounter, a great combonation!
Anyone who has ever administered a network of at least 3-4 servers (if not more) will find individually updating accounts, software and such to be a burden. I found myself in this situation not too long ago, and then I picked up this book, and found the answers I was looking for.Most Unix admins have heard of NFS and NIS but might not have considered using them together. This book gives a very thorough discussion each topic, how to set it up, how to deal with advanced issues, and how to troubleshoot. Admins will really develop an appreciation for how useful these tools can be, especially when used together. Though LDAP is gaining prominence, a network utilizing NIS, NFS, and automounter is still a very nice network to administer. Even just learning NFS/automounter is time well spent because it is a service not likely to go away. I really felt this this book was worth the time and money because it really helps the intermediate to advanced admin better gain control of the network (instead of the network controlling him :). Definintely give this book a try. Enjoy!
Rating: 5 out of 5
The standard for NFS/NIS
O'Reilly puts out so many well written books and the quality of the authors is usually the highest, and this book is no exception. Both of these subjects are covered in more than enough detail for anyone need to setup NFS, NIS, or both. It is written in such a way that you son't have to read straight through, but can use it as a reference for the information you need. I would recommend this book for anyone neededing a decent to thorough understanding of this topic.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Fairly Outdated
This book is quite outdated. For example, it predates NFS version 3, NFS over TCP (mostly the default these days), or autofs.If you are a beginner and are looking for fundamental information this book might be useful if you remain aware of its shortcomings. It covers the fundamentals of NFS V2 over UDP, and NIS quite well, and has a good troubleshooting section, which might help beginners negotiate the interoperability and tuning issues that are common in today's multivendor environments. It covers automounting issues quite well, from an "automount" (SunOS 4) perspective.
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