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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!zdc!super.zippo.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!ais.net!visi.com!not-for-mail From: Mike Horwath <drechsau@nospam.visi.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: NIS under FreeBSD Date: 20 Apr 1997 06:14:17 GMT Organization: the doghouse Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5jcc7p$ig0$2@darla.visi.com> References: <E8M34v.HFC@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: mixer.visi.com X-No-Archive: yes X-Files: Great show, never miss it. X-DNEWS: bad marketing, shoddy company, okay software X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970303; sun4m SunOS 5.5.1] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39384 Andrej Brodnik (Andy) <abrodnik@daisy.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: : Hi there, : I'd like to thank to everybody who helped me out by referring to the : man pages. At the same time I want to warn everybody not to use the : book "Managing NFS and NIS" from the O'Reilly's series.-( What a stupid comment. The book kicks ass from a conceptual point of view. So what if things are slightly skewed for freebsd vs sunos, the goal was the same, you learn how it interacts with your systems and networks. And hell, NFS == NFS as well, from a normal point of view (I won't argue v3 vs v2 with anyone :). -- Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau LIFE: Lover drechsau@visi.com Visi: info@visi.com drechsau@Geeks.ORG Twin Cities area Internet Access: 612-288-0880 for more info The founding member of Minn. Coalition for Internet Accessibility