is LDAP more reliable than NIS?
 

Hi, we have dozens of Fedora and CentOS in a private network, many of them hook a few USB drives, that changes over time. We only have a few users working on KDE and MS Windows.

We got quite some issues with automount. Some automounted drives are not recognized or worse, recognized as another drive, which can only be fixed by rebooting, due to the many existing cross-mounting processes. My predecessor told me it was because of the different versions of NIS running on different machines.

I am thinking about migrating to LDAP, but have two questions:

1. Will LDAP stop this headache?
2. Will the migration be too painful, or I may better just solve the NIS problem? I've read horror stories like KDE won't login with LDAP etc.

Thank you,
John