Working With Oracle® Solaris 11.2 Directory and Naming Services: DNS and NIS

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Updated: July 2014
 
 
Chapter 6

Setting Up and Configuring Network Information Service

This chapter describes the initial set up and configuration of the Network Information Service (NIS).


Note - In some contexts, machine names are referred to as host names or machine names. This discussion uses “machine,” but some screen messages or NIS map names might use host or machine.

This chapter covers the following topics: