Hal Stern, Mike Eisler, Ricardo Labiaga. Managing NFS and NIS. - O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.

   The Network File System (NFS) and the Network Information Service (NIS) provide mechanisms for solving "consistent and transparent" access problems. The NFS and NIS protocols were developed by Sun Microsystems and are now licensed to hundreds of vendors and universities, not to mention dozens of implementations from the published NFS and NFS specifications. NIS centralizes commonly replicated configuration files, such as the password file, on a single host. It eliminates duplicate copies of user and system information and allows the system administrator to make changes from one place. NFS makes remote filesystems appear to be local, as if they were on disks attached to the local host. With NFS, all machines can share a single set of files, eliminating duplicate copies of files on different machines in the network. Using NFS and NIS together greatly simplifies the management of various combinations of machines, users, and filesystems.

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