Who should attend: System administrators and technical managers who must evaluate or set up a NIS+ network. It will be most meaningful to system administrators who have some experience setting up and maintaining a NIS (formerly Yellow Pages) or DNS system.

What you will learn: Why and how to set up and administer a NIS+ network. An overview of what NIS+ is and how it differs from NIS.

You will learn about the benefits of NIS+: its integration with DNS, enhanced security, cross-domain and cross-subnet operability, distributed network information, and dynamic binding. Basic concepts such as NIS+ tables (what are they and how are they used), the name space, and basic terms (e.g. root, master, replica, and client) will be explained.

Topics will include: the nsswitch.conf file, setting up an NIS+ domain, setting security levels, bulk loading data, integrating with DNS (as well as an overview of NIS+ commands), and troubleshooting.

Marc Staveley has 14 years of experience in UNIX appli cation development and administration. An independent consultant, Marc has previously held positions at NCR Corp or ation, Princeton University, and the University of Waterloo. Among his current projects, Marc is working with the Sun Microsystems Developer Support Centre assisting their cus tomers in migrating from SunOS to Solaris. He is a frequent speaker on the topics of standards-based develop ment, multi-threaded programming and system administration.

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