1. Chapter 1 Networking Fundamentals

   1. Networking overview

   2. Physical and data link layers

   3. Network layer

   4. Transport layer

   5. The session and presentation layers

2. Chapter 2 Introduction to Directory Services

   1. Purpose of directory services

   2. Brief survey of common directory services

   3. Name service switch

   4. Which directory service to use

3. Chapter 3 Network Information Service Operation

   1. Masters, slaves, and clients

   2. Basics of NIS management

   3. Files managed under NIS

   4. Trace of a key match

4. Chapter 4 System Management Using NIS

   1. NIS network design

   2. Managing map files

   3. Advanced NIS server administration

   4. Managing multiple domains

5. Chapter 5 Living with Multiple Directory Servers

   1. Domain name servers

   2. Implementation

   3. Fully qualified and unqualified hostnames

   4. Centralized versus distributed management

   5. Migrating from NIS to DNS for host naming

   6. What next?

6. Chapter 6 System Administration Using the Network File System

   1. Setting up NFS

   2. Exporting filesystems

   3. Mounting filesystems

   4. Symbolic links

   5. Replication

   6. Naming schemes

7. Chapter 7 Network File System Design and Operation

   1. Virtual filesystems and virtual nodes

   2. NFS protocol and implementation

   3. NFS components

   4. Caching

   5. File locking

   6. NFS futures

8. Chapter 8 Diskless Clients

   1. NFS support for diskless clients

   2. Setting up a diskless client

   3. Diskless client boot process

   4. Managing client swap space

   5. Changing a client's name

   6. Troubleshooting

   7. Configuration options

   8. Brief introduction to JumpStart administration

   9. Client/server ratios

9. Chapter 9 The Automounter

   1. Automounter maps

   2. Invocation and the master map

   3. Integration with NIS

   4. Key and variable substitutions

   5. Advanced map tricks

   6. Side effects

10. Chapter 10 PC/NFS Clients

    1. PC/NFS today

    2. Limitations of PC/NFS

    3. Configuring PC/NFS

    4. Common PC/NFS usage issues

    5. Printer services

11. Chapter 11 File Locking

    1. What is file locking?

    2. NFS and file locking

    3. Troubleshooting locking problems

12. Chapter 12 Network Security

    1. User-oriented network security

    2. How secure are NIS and NFS?

    3. Password and NIS security

    4. NFS security

    5. Stronger security for NFS

    6. Viruses

13. Chapter 13 Network Diagnostic and Administrative Tools

    1. Broadcast addresses

    2. MAC and IP layer tools

    3. Remote procedure call tools

    4. NIS tools

    5. Network analyzers

14. Chapter 14 NFS Diagnostic Tools

    1. NFS administration tools

    2. NFS statistics

    3. snoop

    4. Publicly available diagnostics

    5. Version 2 and Version 3 differences

    6. NFS server logging

    7. Time synchronization

15. Chapter 15 Debugging Network Problems

    1. Duplicate ARP replies

    2. Renegade NIS server

    3. Boot parameter confusion

    4. Incorrect directory content caching

    5. Incorrect mount point permissions

    6. Asynchronous NFS error messages

16. Chapter 16 Server-Side Performance Tuning

    1. Characterization of NFS behavior

    2. Measuring performance

    3. Benchmarking

    4. Identifying NFS performance bottlenecks

    5. Server tuning

17. Chapter 17 Network Performance Analysis

    1. Network congestion and network interfaces

    2. Network partitioning hardware

    3. Network infrastructure

    4. Impact of partitioning

    5. Protocol filtering

18. Chapter 18 Client-Side Performance Tuning

    1. Slow server compensation

    2. Soft mount issues

    3. Adjusting for network reliability problems

    4. NFS over wide-area networks

    5. NFS async thread tuning

    6. Attribute caching

    7. Mount point constructions

    8. Stale filehandles

1. Appendix A IP Packet Routing

   1. Routers and their routing tables

   2. Static routing

2. Appendix B NFS Problem Diagnosis

   1. NFS server problems

   2. NFS client problems

   3. NFS errno values

3. Appendix C Tunable Parameters

4. Colophon

Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The animal featured on the cover of Managing NFS and NIS is a tree porcupine, a name meaning "pig with spines." Like the guinea pig, the porcupine is not a pig at all, but a rodent. The tree porcupine is native to the eastern United States and northern Canada. In summer it feeds on green vegetation and the leaves and twigs of deciduous trees; in winter it eats the bark of evergreens. It will frequently chew away a complete ring of bark from around the tree, thereby killing it. As a result of such behavior, the porcupine does millions of dollars of damage annually to the timber industries.

The spines of the tree porcupine are about two inches long, barbed, and apt to be concealed by the animal's long, coarse fur. Contrary to popular belief, the porcupine does not shoot these spines. The spines are loosely attached to the skin, so when the barb on the spine catches on an attacker, the spine will pull loose from the porcupine. Once embedded, spines tend to work their way further in and have been known to cause death when they puncture internal organs. Unix and its attendant programs can be unruly beasts. Nutshell Handbooks(R) help you tame them.

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Edie Freedman designed this cover and the entire Unix bestiary that appears on other Nutshell Handbooks. The beasts themselves are adapted from 19th-century engravings from the Dover Pictorial Archive.

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