Client/Server Help needed!

[csmager]

I'm unsure as to how to go about setting up a linux client/server network! I'm fairly new to linux, but know a few things! I'm currently running Slackware 8 on two machines connected. TCP/IP networking works, and NFS is set up on the 'server'.

I understand that I could share /home on the server, and then map it on the client(s), but how would I integrate the users? How would I, in effect, 'log on' to the server, as in a (dare I say it) WinNT network? I can't seem to find any help anywhere (i.e. howtos and the like) - maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places!

Thanks for any help!

 

[Delton]

You may want to check out the howtos on NIS.

 

[csmager]

Yea! I was looking in a book I have, and it mentioned something about the possibility of passwords being stored on an NIS server while it was talking about Linux Security....

I then went on the net and searched for NIS howtos, and realised I'd been looking in the wrong places!

Thanks very much - I look forward to tackling NIS!

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C.S.Mager