Re: [cobalt-users] NIS

[Kris Dahl <kris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 1/20/00 1:45 PM, Nathan Martinez at nathanm@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I have tried this and after a ton of trial and error..... only ended up
> being able to connect to my pdc.  None of the other nt servers would allow
> me to connect.  I believe that this is due to my raq not officially joining
> my nt domain.  I have tried doing this as I have done before with other
> machines....but I could not get it to work with the raq2.  Also, I have seen
> reference to NIS on my redhat machine at home.  Are you sure that it is only
> for Solaris networks?  Any words of wisdom on how I can get all of this
> working?  Why is samba better than NFS (a question that I have yet to get
> any kind of answer on)?  thanks for your help.

Samba seems to be much easier on the machine (i.e. doesn't require nearly as
many resources).  The Raq should be able to join your NT domain... Have you
tried SWAT (Samba Web Adminstration Tool)?

-k