FC and NIS

[Nigel Wade]

Mark Haney wrote:
> I'm pretty much a newbie to NIS and I've got an NIS domain I'm trying to 
> disassemble so that we can add these machines to an LDAP domain.  
> Somehow NFS is using NIS to determine what machines can mount the NFS 
> shares.  Can someone tell me how to break that so that NFS can be 
> mounted from any ips?  Or point me to some docs that will help be tear 
> this thing down?
> 

Typically, NFS host access control via NIS is done using netgroups. But it can 
just as easily specify individual hostnames (with wildcards), IPs or subnet masks.


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Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group,
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