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Enabling NIS using the command-line interface

You can enable NIS on your storage system for host-name resolution. Whenever you enable NIS for group lookup services, you must also enable local caching of the NIS group files.

About this task

If you use NIS for group lookup services, disabling NIS group caching can severely degrade performance. Failure to enable NIS lookups and NIS caching together could lead to timeouts as CIFS clients attempt authentication.

Steps

  1. To enable NIS lookups, enter the following command:
    options nis.enable on
  2. To enable NIS caching, enter the following command:
    options nis.group_update.enable on