On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 03:01:38PM +0200, Edward Welbourne wrote: > > - the expectation is that your network administrator will tell > > you what it is
> Failing that, the documentation should at least say "Ask your network > administrator what it is if you don't know." The fact that network > administrators call simply refer to it as "the NIS domain name" > without further comment is no help to someone who *isn't* a network > administrator, so isn't familiar with the nomenclature, but wants to I've thought this over a bit and I'm really not comfortbale with doing anything more than adding a generalised "Please consult your network administrator" statement. > install nis. Instructions on how to set something up should be > targetted at the people who don't already know how to do so ! There's two expected use cases here: people installing their own network (in which case they set up the server and know exactly how everything is set up already) and people joining an existing network where the network administrator will provide them with appropriate information. I don't really want to get into dealing with cases where people are installing client machines without the support of the network administrator since that's going to involve things like grovelling the configuration details out of other machines on the network in ways which are going to depend on the various OSs installed, will require root access for some bits of configuration and could quite easily go wrong if someone picks the wrong machine to clone. The domain name is only the start of it here. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
