All about Administering Nis+

by Rick Ramsey and Sun Microsystems Press

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 -- which is installed on over 3.1 million nodes worldwide. NIS+ is available on Solaris...-2.x -- whether Intel...--or SPARC...-- based, and is portable to other operating systems that support ONC RPC or ONC+ transport- independent RPC (TI-RPC...-). This is THE authoritative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0133095762
• ISBN13: 9780133095760
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.6" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

A Great Reference and Guide.

Provides us with a very comprehensive and detailed instruction to Administering Nis+. This book is invaluable for this tedious and complex art. Thank you Mr. Ramsey for providing us with such a needed reference book.

NIS+ Essential

I've never set up NIS+ before and the book was invaluable to me for setting up NIS+. Not only does it give the essential information, but it's approach plays to the impatient as well as those who want to understand everything that is going on. It gives both the quick setup approach and the more detailed approach so you can really understand what you are doing. I have not seen a book with this kind of approach before, so it was a bit confusing at first, but without hesitation I recommend this book for those who want to set up NIS+.

Good reference for NIS+, if you have run NIS(yp) before.

The first half of the book is an very good resource in helping you to learn some of the in's and out's of NIS+. The only problem I have with the first half is the fact that it is slanted for use in an existing NIS network. The last half consists of step by step procedures in setting up NIS+ and administrative tips for NIS+. These would be great, except for the simple fact that some of the commands listed in the setup portion simply do not work. The book is up to date if you are running Solaris 2.3 thru 2.5, but not for 2.6 or Solaris 7. The book needs another revision.

Excellent work, Makes NIS+ even easier

I would have been up the river without a paddle without this book. One of the best references on NIS+ available.