NFS Services Administrator's Guide

Configuring and Administering NIS
Chapter 4146
commonly used configuration information on a master server and
propagate the information to all the hosts in your network. This chapter
explains how to configure and administer the servers and clients in an
NIS domain. It contains the following sections:
•Overview of NIS
• Planning the NIS Network
• Configuring and Administering an NIS Master Server
• Configuring and Administering an NIS Slave Server
• Configuring and Administering an NIS Client
• Configuring and Administering Secure RPC (if NIS+ is not used)
• Summary of NIS Commands
NOTE NIS is not supported across extended LANs (LANs separated by routers
or bridges). NIS is also not supported across WAN links, like X.25 and
SLIP.