NIS and NIS+ Changes

Solstice Network Client supports both NIS and NIS+ on Windows 95 and Windows NT clients. The SET NIS directive looks up values in either or both NIS and NIS+, depending on the configuration of the local machine.

To facilitate backward compatibility, you should use NIS table names, unless you KNOW that you are using NIS+ in native (non-yp) mode. If you are using NIS+, do NOT add the trailing org_dir to the table name.

If NIS+ is enabled, table names are converted according to these rules:

• The first period in a name is converted to an underscore.

• The string org_dir is appended to the name.

For example,

• auto.home becomes auto_home.org_dir

• passwd becomes passwd.org_dir

If you are adapting PC-Admin scripts, note that the return value from NIS+ can be different from NIS, so you may need to use the SET STR command to alter the result.

The SET STR VAR=# %OTHERVAR and SET STR VAR=* %VAR% directives are useful for this purpose. See the description of SNC directives in "SNC Script Directives".