18 Jul
2001
18 Jul
'01
8:52 p.m.
Quoting Pete Turnbull <pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com>om>:
niload is just a helper for loading text-based configuration files into
the NetInfo DB. nidump does the same in reverse.
Misc. link:
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1060.htmld/1060.html
Heh :) I'm sometimes ready to put NI into same category but that's
probably just because I have one (or two, if you count white boxes)
NeXT(s). NI would probably kick ass in an installation with something
like 100 machines.
I must admit that NetInfo can be quite confusing and I can screw up a
machine pretty easily with it.
--
jht
On Jul 18, 21:56, Jarkko Teppo wrote:
I'll have a look for that. Any idea where I'd find it? I don't have
any
paper manuals, but I do have several CDs.
If you install the whole shebang (at least on 3.3) you get the documentation
library in (I don't remember) /NextLibrary/something. It doesn't matter
because the bookshelf-files are in /NextLibrary/BookShelves/. Just double
click on SysAdmin.bshlf.
Man-pages on niload and nidump might help too.
Honestly, I never
remember
how to do it so I just improvise and create a
local NI hierarchy and
use DNS for name resolution.
I read them, and realised they didn't tell me enough, mainly because I
don't understand the rest of it. The chapter did mention NIS (yp) so that *might*
be an option.
No, NIS is *never* an option ;-)