17.6. Setting Up an NIS Slave Server
Slave NIS servers are used in a similar way to secondary DNS servers—they keep a copy of the tables held by the master server, and they can be used by clients if the master fails or is slow to respond. If you are using NIS on a very large network that has multiple LANs connected by slow links, it may also make sense to put a slave server on each LAN so that clients can use it instead of the master.
On OpenLinux, there is no way to setup a slave server using Webmin, due to the unique NIS configuration files used by the distribution. On all other versions of Linux, the steps to set up a system as a slave server are:
1. | On the module's main page, click on the NIS Server icon. This will take you to the server ... |
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