How do the admintool tools support NIS?
All NIS maps can be read by all admintool tools. No NIS map can be programmatically updated by any admintool tool. Users of any admintool tool on a network using NIS must perform a manual procedure. That procedure involves pretending to use None name service, capturing the changes in /etc files, manually merging the changes into the NIS master files and remaking the NIS maps, and cleaning up the /etc files. The new information will not be known across the entire NIS domain until all the push operations initiated during the manual procedure have completed. Note that neither this use of the None name service option as part of the manual workaround procedure, nor the on-screen documentation of this manual procedure by some admintool tools, change the fact that admintool tools do not expect different Solaris hosts on the same network to use different name service(s). Q) The message Host Manager gives when I select NIS and try to do an operation that might involve updating maps seems to imp
