[gentoo-user] Is the best solution still NIS+NFS?

[gentoo-user] Is the best solution still NIS+NFS?

[Leandro Melo de Sales]

Hi list,

  few years later I setup a environment which shares the /home using
NFS for the users and the authentication method was NIS. Is this still
the best solution?
  My current environment is based on LDAP where all services use it. I
configured PAM+NSSwitch, Postfix, and so on. Now, I want linux client
workstations be authenticated remotely on my LDAP server and mount the
users home. What do you recommend?

Thanks,

Leandro.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Is the best solution still NIS+NFS?

[Donnie Berkholz]

Leandro Melo de Sales wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
>  few years later I setup a environment which shares the /home using
> NFS for the users and the authentication method was NIS. Is this still
> the best solution?
>  My current environment is based on LDAP where all services use it. I
> configured PAM+NSSwitch, Postfix, and so on. Now, I want linux client
> workstations be authenticated remotely on my LDAP server and mount the
> users home. What do you recommend?

You can use LDAP + pam_ldap for auth, I think there's a guide on gentoo.org.

Thanks,
Donnie
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Re: [gentoo-user] Is the best solution still NIS+NFS?

[Leandro Melo de Sales]

OK. And about NFS? Is still the best one for file share proposes? What
about CIFS?

[]s
Leandro

2006/8/11, Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org>:
> Leandro Melo de Sales wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> >  few years later I setup a environment which shares the /home using
> > NFS for the users and the authentication method was NIS. Is this still
> > the best solution?
> >  My current environment is based on LDAP where all services use it. I
> > configured PAM+NSSwitch, Postfix, and so on. Now, I want linux client
> > workstations be authenticated remotely on my LDAP server and mount the
> > users home. What do you recommend?
>
> You can use LDAP + pam_ldap for auth, I think there's a guide on gentoo.org.
>
> Thanks,
> Donnie
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Re: [gentoo-user] Is the best solution still NIS+NFS?

[Donnie Berkholz]

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Leandro Melo de Sales wrote:
> OK. And about NFS? Is still the best one for file share proposes? What
> about CIFS?

NFSv3 over TCP is pretty solid, but if you're in a mixed Windows-Linux
environment you might want to look into CIFS.

Thanks,
Donnie


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[gentoo-user] Re: Is the best solution still NIS+NFS?

[reader]

Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org> writes:

> Leandro Melo de Sales wrote:
>> OK. And about NFS? Is still the best one for file share proposes? What
>> about CIFS?
>
> NFSv3 over TCP is pretty solid, but if you're in a mixed Windows-Linux
> environment you might want to look into CIFS.

But when the direction is windows => linux.  How does cifs come into play?

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[gentoo-user] Re: Is the best solution still NIS+NFS?

[Anno v. Heimburg]

reader@newsguy.com wrote:
> But when the direction is windows => linux.  How does cifs come into play?

I don't quite get your question. CIFS/SMB is what Windows uses for its
network shares. Using samba, Linux can both share and mount* CIFS volumes.

Anno

*) For mounting, you have to also compile SMB support into the kernel.





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[gentoo-user] Re: Is the best solution still NIS+NFS?

[reader]

"Anno v. Heimburg" <anno@vonheimburg.de> writes:

> reader@newsguy.com wrote:
>> But when the direction is windows => linux.  How does cifs come into play?
>
> I don't quite get your question. CIFS/SMB is what Windows uses for its
> network shares. Using samba, Linux can both share and mount* CIFS volumes.

Oh sorry I was laboring under the notion smb disn not include cifs.
My mistake.


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[gentoo-user] Re: Is the best solution still NIS+NFS?

[Sven Köhler]

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>  few years later I setup a environment which shares the /home using
> NFS for the users and the authentication method was NIS. Is this still
> the best solution?
>  My current environment is based on LDAP where all services use it. I
> configured PAM+NSSwitch, Postfix, and so on. Now, I want linux client
> workstations be authenticated remotely on my LDAP server and mount the
> users home. What do you recommend?

My university uses LDAP + AFS.

AFS seems quite complicated though ...


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Re: [gentoo-user] Is the best solution still NIS+NFS?

[Dirk Heinrichs]

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Am Donnerstag, 10. August 2006 23:36 schrieb ext Leandro Melo de Sales:
> Hi list,
>
>   few years later I setup a environment which shares the /home using
> NFS for the users and the authentication method was NIS. Is this still
> the best solution?

It never was. It was the _only_ one for some time.

Depending on the size of your network, I would look into OpenAFS, Kerberos 
and LDAP for file, authorization and authentication services.

Bye...

	Dirk
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