17.8. NIS on Solaris

The only other operating system that Webmin allows you to configure NIS on is Sun's Solaris. On Solaris, the NIS Client and Client Services page are identical to those on Linux, and work in the same way. However, the NIS Server and Server Security forms are slightly different:

Table 17.1. Module Configuration Options
Maximum number of records to displayIf the number of records in an NIS table exceeds this number, then the NIS Tables page will not display all of the records. Instead, it will show a search form for finding records based on a field and search term.
Automatically rebuild NIS maps?Normally, any time you add, update, or delete a record in a table file, the NIS Makefile is run to rebuild all tables. Because this can ...

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