Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 SP2 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION Installation Manual page 678

and set up slave servers in the subnets as described in Section 35.1.2, "Configuring
a NIS Slave Server" (page 664).
35.1.1 Configuring a NIS Master Server
To configure a NIS master server for your network, proceed as follows:
1 Start YaST > Network Services > NIS Server.
2 If you need just one NIS server in your network or if this server is to act as the
Figure 35.1 NIS Server Setup
3 Determine basic NIS setup options:
660 Installation and Administration
master for further NIS slave servers, select Install and set up NIS Master Server.
YaST installs the required packages.
TIP
If NIS server software is already installed on your machine, initiate the
creation of a NIS master server by clicking Create NIS Master Server.