On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 03:04:02PM -0500, Shawn Fertch wrote: > Anyone familiar enough with NIS on this? > > At work we have varying *nix platforms: > > Solaris (2.4, 2.6, 8) > HP-UX to 11 > AIX 4.3.2 and 4.3.3 some older versions well I believe > Tru64 4.0D, 4.0F, 5.1 > Linux > SCO > A few others I'm certain of > > Will NIS work cross platfoms, as well as being able to exclude certain > servers to which the person shouldn't have access to? Someone was looking > into it months ago, and said that it would not work because of the various > *nix platforms we run. I've used NIS for many years, but not on all the platforms that you've mentioned. I know for sure that the NIS will work on a network with Linux, Solaris, Irix, AIX, HP-UX, Tru64. That's covers you for everything but SCO. I've never used SCO. Gabe -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gabe Turner gabe at msi.umn.edu SGI Origin Systems Administrator, University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation www.msi.umn.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------