Installing NIS & NFS on Ubuntu 12.04 (client editions) *Updated*
In an attempt to upgrade all the systems in out computer labs to Ubuntu 12.04, we ran into a couple of problems. Inorder to be able to connect to the central department server, the systems had to have NIS and NFS installed and configured on each of the systems. This way, students would be able to login onto anyone of the systems and still be able to access their files(no matter which system it is). So, after having installed Ubuntu 12.04, and having done the usual system upgrades after configuring the system proxy (yes, we have proxy in our college, kind of makes our life difficult when we're trying to upgrade on different versions of Linux), we move on to looking up Ubuntu Manuals and start looking for setup and configuration manuals of NIS and NFS. And well, the good thing about Ubuntu is that there are a looot of installation manuals, and the best ones we found are Ubuntu help for installing NIS and Ubuntu help for installing NFS . Along with installation, ...