This is also the response I sent first to your email you sent me in regards to your question:
>1) What is the minimum linux server hardware
>requirement.
>(cpu, ram, nic, harddisk spec and etc) ? for
>setting up 50 clients.
If your not going to have a very large user load, I'd probably recommend at least 500mhz or higher, 128 megs of Ram or higher, 10/100 based NIC would work and a fairly decent size hard disk which depends on what your going to be serving off the server, etc.. this depending on if all the clients would be running different services or all services off the NIS
server.
>2) What is the minimum workstation speciation
>and requirement for each
>client (cpu, ram, nic, harddisk spec and etc)
>?
This you could really judge for yourself as if most of the services are off the NIS server, you could get away with clients around 200mhz or higher, 64 megs of RAM or higher, any 10/100 based NIC and minimal harddisk if again, alot of the services will be ran off the NIS server. Some might only need a gig or less even. You can even setup a diskless workstation that can work.
>3) What network speed is recommended ?
10/100 based network should work fine.
>4) If I want to include x terminal server
>which package or service component should I
>install ? How many disk space is required on
>server or client ?
This all depends really as you have many choices. To save space I would recommend running the X services off the clients, as running from the server and over a network with any connection speed and fast server will use alot of resources/bandwidth and only slow everything down.
>5) Any useful website and documentation which
>I can look at ?
Always check out
www.tldp.org which has some NIS howto's there.
>6) I would like to join the NIS mailing list.
>Can you provide me the mailing list address.
Unfortunately don't know of any but I'm sure a quick search on google.com might find some.
Hope some of my responses help you out in setting up your NIS server and clients.
