Re: Sun NIS+ & Informix Online

In article <DERWAY.95May5101428@alumni.ndc.com> derway@ndc.com (D. Erway) writes: >From: derway@ndc.com (D. Erway) >Subject: Re: Sun NIS+ & Informix Online >Date: 05 May 1995 17:14:28 GMT [snip] >Informix knows and agrees that none of the online products, (5, 6, or 7) >currently work on Solaris with NIS+. They call NIS+ an "unsupported" >configuration. They understand that not supporting NIS+ is close to not >supporting Solaris, (since SUN makes it more difficult to use NIS than NIS+ >under Solaris). They say there will be some product out sometime that does >support it, but they won't say what or when. [snip] >Don Don, What is not working? I running an (albeit small) NIS+ network with OnLine 5.x and 7.1 with no (NIS+) problems under Solaris 2.4. OnLine shouldn't need much info from the "/etc database" type files except for hosts, passwd, and services. None of these have been problematic. Getting useful answers from tech support... well don't get me started. Send me some mail with some more details and maybe I can help. scott dunbar dunbar@interaccess.com chicago, il, usa scott dunbar dunbar@interaccess.com