We are looking into ways of improving the NIS implementation to be more efficient. We are not planning on implementing the slave functionality on the filer though.
We are currently focussing on better response to netgroup queries.
-Devi Netapp Engineering.
-----Original Message----- From: Bruce Sterling Woodcock [mailto:sirbruce@ix.netcom.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 1:34 AM To: Bond, Andrew; Timothy Demarest Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: NIS and netgroup file
The filer does not copy the NIS maps into /etc. NIS group information is cached, but otherwise the filer acts as a NIS client only, and will query
the
NIS server it has bound to ("nis info" will tell you which this is).
Is full server (non-master) functionality going to be included in the future? It would be very useful and would allow the filer to be more robust.
Bruce