[How-To] Automounting Home Directories with NIS and NFS

This writeup was done on Debian Server and Ubuntu Desktop. Our goal is to automounting home directories using NIS, NFS and autofs.

[How-To] Installing and Configuring NIS

The Network Information Service (NIS), utilizes daemons and a database to provide centralized authentication in a client-server architecture for Linux. It’s similar to the way the Active Directory provides centralized authentication for Windows clients in a Microsoft network. You only need to create, configure and modify objects ONCE on the NIS server. Those changes are then implemented on ALL your NIS clients.

[How-To] Installing and Configuring NFS

The NFS (Network File System) protocol allows a system to share directories and files with others over a network (Unix and Linux envirenments).

[How-To] Install FTP Server on Fedora

The FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is used as one of the most common means of copying files between servers over the Internet, in this post we will get in touch on how to install/configure FTP on Fedora.

[How-To] Install LAMP Server on Fedora

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl) server is a group of open source software used to get Web Servers up and running, Apache as the Web Server, MySQL as the relational database management system and PHP as the object-oriented scripting language. In this quick post we will explain how to install LAMP on Fedora.