Re: NFS and NIS on the same server?

From: Howard J. Rogers (hjr_at_dizwell.com)
Date: 08/24/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 10:02:36 +1000

zfxjy@chfqus.com wrote:

> |I hope from the content of my original post that it's clear that it is as
> |it tries to start running the server that the error message appears. So
> |no, it's not running... and that's the point :-)
> |
> |Besides, I was rather hoping the command line would not be necessary to
> |accomplish something for which a GUI Control Centre option is given. Now,
> |if the GUI is known for some reason not to be able to configure this
> |server, that is useful information for me, and I know the command line
> |beckons. But is it known?
> |
> |I don't think we've established that just yet.
>
> The reason I asked you to try the command line is that it may give more
> informative messages. GUIs are not perfect. Go on, give it a try, how
> much of your time will it take?

I'm very happy at a command line. But that's not the point of the question!
I want to know whether it is possible to configure NIS on a machine running
NFS (it appears to be so) *via the GUI alone*.
 
Is, in other words, the Suse 9.1 GUI for NIS Server configuration broken,
deficient or otherwise likely to give problems?

> Also do you have the ypserv package installed?

Well, that's part of the same issue, isn't it? If the option to configure
the NIS server is in the Control Centre, and if it doesn't pop up a message
saying 'ypserv is not installed', or something similar, then we could
conclude that the GUI is indeed deficient.

But I don't get any errors like that... and I don't think that's a
deficiency, since a whereis ypserv produces the answer /usr/sbin/ypserv.

I don't mean to seem curmudgeonly about it. If someone had replied "Oh yes,
I had that issue, but I twiddled the frucktlingle and then it just worked",
then I would know the fix is easy, and I'd be up and running. Likewise, if
someone had replied "No, as is well known you have to manually configure
files X, Y and Z first, and then install package ABC and then twiddle the
frucktlingle", then I would know right off the bat not to bother with the
GUI.

In other words, you helped a lot by providing the assurance that NFS and NIS
can co-exist, which was another of my concerns. But with that established,
I am seeking information on how good a job the GUI tool does, so dropping
to the command line would rather defeat the purpose.

Regards
HJR

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