{"id":31613,"date":"2013-06-13T14:09:49","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T14:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.open-e.com\/?p=31613"},"modified":"2025-07-07T10:41:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T10:41:43","slug":"connect-open-e-dss-v7-to-a-nis-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/connect-open-e-dss-v7-to-a-nis-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Connect Open-E DSS V7 to a NIS Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tGot 12 minutes to spare? You can tune in to our new webcast and explore a few facts about NIS as an authentication method for NAS, available to use within Open-E DSS V7.<\/p>\n<p>NIS (Network Information Service) maintains and distributes a central directory of user and group information, hostnames etc. within a computer network. In practice, it can provide authentication data to outside processes in order to identify users.<\/p>\n<p>In Open-DSS V7, we can connect to NIS server and import users and groups database. We can then use it for restricting access to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/solutions\/nas-effective-storage-solution-small-business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NAS <\/a>shares accessed over SMB, NFS or other available file protocols.<\/p>\n<p>The webcast covers the following topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is NIS server?<\/li>\n<li>How to verify the NIS server is running.<\/li>\n<li>How to create users on NIS server.<\/li>\n<li>Creating a NAS share.<\/li>\n<li>Switching to NIS authentication in Open-E DSS V7.<\/li>\n<li>Manage share\u2019s access settings.<\/li>\n<li>Enable NFS access.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Click on the button below to watch the webcast:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/service-and-support\/library\/webcasts-and-videos\/?click=1361\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Play-now-Button.png\" alt=\"Play now - Button\" width=\"200\" height=\"53\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t tried our software yet, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/download\/open-e-data-storage-software-v7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">download <\/a> a free 60 day trial from our website now!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got 12 minutes to spare? You can tune in to our new webcast and explore a few facts about NIS as an authentication method for NAS, available to use within&nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[779,765],"tags":[415,427,466],"class_list":["post-31613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nas","category-open-e-legacy-products","tag-nas","tag-nis","tag-open-e-dss-v7"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55188,"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31613\/revisions\/55188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}