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NIS under Mac OS X Leopard

After my LDAP server stopped working I had to re-configure my Mac to use NIS which caused me a lot of problems under Mac OS X in the past. But it seems that Apple actually fixed NIS support in Mac OS X Leopard. During the two days I used NIS as the directory service on my Mac I didn’t experience any login failures or NFS problems. AutoFS, the new automounter, even picked up the hierarchical Solaris-style automounter maps that my NIS server provides.

Since yesterday evening my Mac is using LDAP again after I managed to fix the LDAP server. But it is good to know that I can use NIS as backup solution.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, 10th of September 2008 at 13:08 and is filed under Mac. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “NIS under Mac OS X Leopard”

  1. Vince Says:
    28th of October 2008 at 02:02

    It would be interesting to see what you had to do to enable NIS.

    Was it as involved as in your previous post (http://zhadum.org.uk/2007/02/16/mac-os-x-and-nis-just-not-good-friends/)
    If it was different in leopard, could you post the details?

  2. Matthias Scheler Says:
    28th of October 2008 at 07:44

    All I had to do was to start the “Directory Utility” program in the “Utilities” folder and configure NIS. It worked out of the box afterwards.

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