Answer / gaurav chourey

NIS ( Network Information Services )

NIS is developed by Sun Microsystem, it is also base product
of Sun Microsystem,it is Domain controller server, it
controls all network users login by a domain, there are two
types of NIS Server

1. NIS master Server
2. NIS slave Server

all network users information will be stored in NIS master
server and their image will be mapped on all NIS slave server.

Suppose our NIS server has been crashed or ShutDown then NIS
slave will provide user information for network login. In
this case we should not reboot or ShutDown their NIS slave
until the master server up.

==> NIS is a distributed database system.

NIS server is also known as network login server and yellow
pages server.
NIS server just like ADS server in comparison
of windows.

Required Packages :

[-]# rpm -qa|grep yp
ypserv
ypbind
yptools
portmap

Answer / manvendra

NIS server:
NIS server stores hostname and username on a network(s)
If anyone want to login via any machine on network then he has to load hostname and user entries from NIS server, if it is found then user logged in successfully....

Answer / kiran

nis stands for network information service is used for
sharing the files across the network nis is used to share
the files in network its used in linux machines only

the configuration file of nis is vi /etc/exports

first create a folder ex: mkdir /sales
than open configuration file than write
ex: /sales 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw,sync)
that means share the file across the network than save and
exit . if u want to see the file is shared or not command
is showmount -e server ip address to acess the shared files
in client machine first create a dir ex: /sales
than mount the server shared dir the command is mount
192.168.1.0:/sales /sales
permanently mounting open configuration file vi /etc/fstab
than write /sales /sales nfs default 0 0 than save and exit

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