what is nis server

Answer Posted / 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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