Administration
Managing NFS and NIS, 2nd Edition
Format: Paperback
Author: Hal Stern
ReleaseDate: 15 August, 2001
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Rating:
Very Solaris centric 
However this book is very heavily geared towards the Solaris OS. I primarly use *BSD and was hoping to learn about NFS/NIS from this book, more than what I had already gleaned from the man pages. It does give exlamples of where the filename(s) or folder structures under a different flavor of Unix would be, but exept for these small tables, the rest of the text uses only the Solaris names/folders.
A note from one of the co-authors 
I'm writing this note to offer additional information
to potential readers. Hello, My name is Mike Eisler, and I am one of the
co-authors of Managing NFS and NIS, Second Edition. At the time I submitted this note, most of the
customer reviews for this book referred to the first edition.
One of the reviews states that the book is focused on NFS
version 2 over UDP and the old style automounter.
Actually, you'll find the second edition of our book
is more modern. New topics in the second edition
include NFS version 3, NFS over TCP, modern autofs-based
automounters, Kerberos V5 authentication for NFS, NFS Access
Control Lists (ACLs), and client side fail over. Another difference is that first edition of this book
used SunOS 4. x as a reference for examples. The second
edition uses Solaris 8. The second edition provides information you won't find
in NFS product documentation, such as using tools like ethereal
to debug NFS problems. This book will give you the benefit of
insights from people who probably wrote some of the code for
your clients and servers. You may find (and I hope) that
it will save you the trouble reporting a problem to
your vendor's customer support line. Thank you for considering our book.
NFS, NIS and automounter, a great combonation!
I found myself in this situation not too long ago, and then I picked up this book, and found the answers I was looking for. Anyone who has ever administered a network of at least 3-4 servers (if not more) will find individually updating accounts, software and such to be a burden.
Most Unix admins have heard of NFS and NIS but might not have considered using them together. This book gives a very thorough discussion each topic, how to set it up, how to deal with advanced issues, and how to troubleshoot. Admins will really develop an appreciation for how useful these tools can be, especially when used together. Though LDAP is gaining prominence, a network utilizing NIS, NFS, and automounter is still a very nice network to administer. Even just learning NFS/automounter is time well spent because it is a service not likely to go away. I really felt this this book was worth the time and money because it really helps the intermediate to advanced admin better gain control of the network (instead of the network controlling him :). Definintely give this book a try. Enjoy!.
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