[Sheflug] NIS Design & Debugging

[James Wallbank <nospam [at] lowtech.org>]

Hi All,

At the moment we're running an NIS server at Access Space, so our 
users can have a single place to store files and a single Desktop 
wherever they sit. The catch is, we set it up last year, and we 
aren't really confident that we've set it up in a sensible way. (The 
words "buggy as hell" spring to mind...!) At the time the crew who 
set it up weren't demons for documentation. (Much of it was in the 
head of one of the team who's subsequently moved on to bigger and 
better things...)

Does anyone fancy helping us down at Access Space for a couple of 
afternoons? If you're experienced with NIS we'd like to hear from you 
- either for some basic network design advice, or for some practical 
configuration help, or maybe, <gasp> even a bit of debugging.

Either way we'd really like to have a coffee (or tea!) and discuss 
whether we can improve our NIS provision. We can't promise any cash 
beyond expenses - we're Access Space is a strapped-for-cash nonprofit 
project - but we're nice people and we write fine references for 
people who help!

Cheers,

James
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      1 Sidney Street
      Sheffield
      S1 4RG
      UK
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