On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 18:19:04 +0100 Tomasz Kundera <tnkund...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 2:40 PM Rowland Penny <rpe...@samba.org> wrote: > > > On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 14:28:25 +0100 > > Tomasz Kundera <tnkund...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > You can still use NIS if you don't need the power (and > > > complexity) of samba. > > > > > > > NIS is a bit outdated and Samba isn't that complex from a Linux > > point of view. > > > > It is outdated because? It works, at least in simple cases. The choice > depends on your needs. Samba is not needed everywhere and yes, it is > more complex then a simple NIS installation. > I do not suggest that samba is a bad choice. It depends on the needs > as I have written above. > I did say I am biased, but from my point of view, NIS, whilst it works, is limited to what Samba provides, mainly because it can include what is virtually a NIS server. Rowland _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
