Mac OS-X Server as a NIS Client with Automount
Many companies use NIS to distribute authentication data (username/password, group, etc) along with automount maps to make networks of servers all authenticate and mount shared NFS drives uniformly. I’ve built hundreds of these networks, often mixing linux, solaris, bsd, and usually a few windows systems. I recently was asked to set up a Mac XServe box on a network of Linux and Solaris machines, and integrate it to work alongside them. At first this was a bit baffling, and there was really very little useful info on the net for how to do this, but I eventually figured it out and it wasn’t that hard in the end. I have very little recent Mac experience so maybe someone more familiar with the Mac would have found this to be simple but I suspect there are really very few people around with recent Mac server experience outside of Apple itself.
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