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Managing NFS and NIS, Second Edition By Hal Stern, Mike Eisler, Ricardo Labiaga
July 2001
Pages: 510

| Table of Contents | Index | Sample Chapter | Colophon

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
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
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
Chapter 4 System Management Using NIS
1. NIS network design
2. Managing map files
3. Advanced NIS server administration
4. Managing multiple domains
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?
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
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
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
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
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
Chapter 11 File Locking
1. What is file locking?
2. NFS and file locking
3. Troubleshooting locking problems
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
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
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
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
Chapter 16 Server-Side Performance Tuning
1. Characterization of NFS behavior
2. Measuring performance
3. Benchmarking
4. Identifying NFS performance bottlenecks
5. Server tuning
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
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

Appendix A IP Packet Routing
1. Routers and their routing tables
2. Static routing
Appendix B NFS Problem Diagnosis
1. NFS server problems
2. NFS client problems
3. NFS errno values
Appendix C Tunable Parameters
Colophon

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Networking Fundamentals

Networking overview

Physical and data link layers

Network layer

Transport layer

The session and presentation layers

Chapter 2 Introduction to Directory Services

Purpose of directory services

Brief survey of common directory services

Name service switch

Which directory service to use

Chapter 3 Network Information Service Operation

Masters, slaves, and clients

Basics of NIS management

Files managed under NIS

Trace of a key match

Chapter 4 System Management Using NIS

NIS network design

Managing map files

Advanced NIS server administration

Managing multiple domains

Chapter 5 Living with Multiple Directory Servers

Domain name servers

Implementation

Fully qualified and unqualified hostnames

Centralized versus distributed management

Migrating from NIS to DNS for host naming

What next?

Chapter 6 System Administration Using the Network File System

Setting up NFS

Exporting filesystems

Mounting filesystems

Symbolic links

Replication

Naming schemes

Chapter 7 Network File System Design and Operation

Virtual filesystems and virtual nodes

NFS protocol and implementation

NFS components

Caching

File locking

NFS futures

Chapter 8 Diskless Clients

NFS support for diskless clients

Setting up a diskless client

Diskless client boot process

Managing client swap space

Changing a client's name

Troubleshooting

Configuration options

Brief introduction to JumpStart administration

Client/server ratios

Chapter 9 The Automounter

Automounter maps

Invocation and the master map

Integration with NIS

Key and variable substitutions

Advanced map tricks

Side effects

Chapter 10 PC/NFS Clients

PC/NFS today

Limitations of PC/NFS

Configuring PC/NFS

Common PC/NFS usage issues

Printer services

Chapter 11 File Locking

What is file locking?

NFS and file locking

Troubleshooting locking problems

Chapter 12 Network Security

User-oriented network security

How secure are NIS and NFS?

Password and NIS security

NFS security

Stronger security for NFS

Viruses

Chapter 13 Network Diagnostic and Administrative Tools

Broadcast addresses

MAC and IP layer tools