Talk:NIS+

Cleanup/corrections needed
I've taken a quick pass over this, but there are a few areas that still need work.

Can a subject matter expert confirm or refute the "UDP vs. TCP" bit in here, for example? RPC is not limited to UDP (NFS runs on TCP, for example); I just don't know if there's some reason NIS+ has to be UDP.

There's some other stuff that I find suspect, such as AD supporting MS hosts only, but I don't think I'm qualified to make those changes.--NapoliRoma 19:46, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Technically TCP is not higher level than UDP. Both are transport layer protocols, typically layered on top of IP. The difference between the two being TCP is connection orientated and will ensure that the packets will arrive and "in order" while UDP is "connectionless" which do not care if the packets arrive or the order they arrive in. It has more to do with reliability than performance.

Samba 3.08 can join an Active Directory network so I guess that point is now obsolete. http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_&_Active_Directory Mirradric 16:22, 9 October 2007 (UTC)