Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 04-08-2006 Installation Manual page 936

4 Check whether the network servers are running and whether your network setup
936 Installation and Administration
DNS (Name Service)
A broken or malfunctioning name service affects the network's functioning
in many ways. If the local machine relies on any network servers for authen-
tication and these servers cannot be found due to name resolution issues,
users would not even be able to log in. Machines in the network managed
by a broken name server would not be able to "see" each other and commu-
nicate.
NTP (Time Service)
A malfunctioning or completely broken NTP service could affect Kerberos
authentication and X server functionality.
NFS (File Service)
If any application needed data stored in an NFS mounted directory, it would
not be able to start or function properly if this service was down or miscon-
figured. In a worst case scenario, a user's personal desktop configuration
would not come up if his home directory containing the .gconf or .kde
subdirectories could not be found due to an outage of the NFS server.
Samba (File Service)
If any application needed data stored in a directory on a Samba server, it
would not be able to start or function properly if this service was down.
NIS (User Management)
If your SUSE Linux Enterprise system relied on a NIS server to provide the
user data, users would not be able to log in to this machine if the NIS service
was down.
LDAP (User Management)
If your SUSE Linux Enterprise system relied on an LDAP server to provide
the user data, users would not be able to log in to this machine if the LDAP
service was down.
Kerberos (Authentication)
Authentication would not work and login to any machine would fail.
CUPS (Network Printing)
Users would not be able to print.
allows you to establish a connection: