NIS
Posted: 18. Jan 2019, 06:01
I am new to Salix. I am very familiar with Redhat and Debian based distributions which all share one of two package managers but Salix is a new thing. We operate Linux based shell servers as well as provide web hosting here at Eskimo North. I am trying to get a Salix shell server operational per a user request. In order to do this the server has to be an NIS client so all users on the network can login, needs to mount home directories and mail spools from other servers via NFS, and preferably should have some way of graphic remote access. For all our other machines we use x2go and I'd love to get an x2go server operational on Salix.
I've installed from 14.2.1 into a kvm/qemu virtual machine. So far it's been a horrendous battle. Virtio disk drivers didn't work, neither virtio network. Could not get a UEFI install to work. And even though the disk defaulted to GRUB which I'm using for all my other virtual machines, could not get it to work on Salix and had to go with lilo (ugh).
So now I've got a basic machine operational but making it an NIS client problematic. NIS not included with a full install so tried to find with the spi package manager using spi --search nis and spi --search ypbind, neither returned anything useful. Help!
I've installed from 14.2.1 into a kvm/qemu virtual machine. So far it's been a horrendous battle. Virtio disk drivers didn't work, neither virtio network. Could not get a UEFI install to work. And even though the disk defaulted to GRUB which I'm using for all my other virtual machines, could not get it to work on Salix and had to go with lilo (ugh).
So now I've got a basic machine operational but making it an NIS client problematic. NIS not included with a full install so tried to find with the spi package manager using spi --search nis and spi --search ypbind, neither returned anything useful. Help!