CS183 Lab 9: NFS and NIS

Goal: In this lab, you will learn how to setup NFS and NIS.

Details: You will need to setup a NFS and a NIS server on the Router VM, and use the Host VM as a client.

NFS

NIS

Questions

  1. Show that automount works.
  2. Describe what happens when trying to access a NFS parition that is mounted with options "soft,timeo=5" and "hard,intr" respectively on the Host VM when the Router VM is down.
  3. Show that the Host VM has no "user1" on the /etc/passwd file, yet, the "user1" is able to login. ie. NIS is at work.
  4. Briefly discuss LDAP authentication vs. NIS.

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