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From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NIS like SUNOS ?
Date: 24 Dec 1995 20:27:30 GMT
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In article <4bfi0f$955@calweb.calweb.com>,
Chris Hancock <ochanco@calweb.com> wrote:
>  I have SUNOS DOCs and my question is how much different is FreeBSD
>  NIS from the SUNOS version? Can I use a SPARC 2 as a NIS server for
>  FreeBSD.

You should be able to use a SPARC 2 as NIS server for FreeBSD machines. The
opposite and combinations should work too. 
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