Publisher: O'Reilly, 2001, 490 pages
ISBN: 1-56592-510-6
Keywords: Networks, System Administration
At many sites, the Network Filesystem (NFS) is the glue that holds together large, diverse collections of computers. But NFS is a "black box" for most users and administrators. This book shows you what's in the box: how to plan a network filesystem, how to set it up, how to optimize its performance, how to plug security holes, and how to solve many other common problems. It also discusses many special topics, including the automounter (a facility for mounting and dismounting filesystems as they are used), file locking, and the widely used PC/NFS.
Managing NFS and NIS, Second Edition, brings you up to date with the latest development in NFS. It provides extensive coverage of NFS's new security options (IPSec and Kerberos), NFS over TCP, performance tuning and debugging. It covers NFS Versions 2 and 3, which are implemented by Solaris 8, Linux, and all other modern Unix and Unix-like operating systems. it also provides a look at what's coming in NFS Version 4, which is now on the IETF standards track.
If you have worked with a network, you are well aware that the complexity of managing a network increases much faster than the number of nodes. This book shows you how to use the Network Information System (NIS) to reduce the overhead of network administration by maintaining a single copy of the most important configuration files on a master server. This book also shows you how to integrate NIS with DNS, how to organize your management information effectively, and how to use NIS to manage automount maps.
NFS has been implemented on more platforms than any other network filesystem and continues to set the standard for reliability, security, and performance. If you are managing a computer network, you need this book.
A very good book on the subject, and sorely needed.
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