After you are done, click Next. openSUSE sets up and lets you test your network
connections.
21. Online update. YaST tests network connectivity through the network interface that you
defined in the previous step, and downloads the latest release notes as a test. This step
also enables you to upload configuration information about your system to Novell and
identify any new updates that are available. To skip this step, you can select the Configure
Later radio button and click Next. If you leave the Configure Now radio button selected,
you can click Next to upload information about your system and retrieve information
about any available updates. This does not actually install any updates, but only registers
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the network locations where updates are available so that you can subsequently use them
to update your system. You can skip this step by selecting the Configure later radio button.
Click Next to proceed.
22. User authentication method. Typically, you will use your home computer in standalone
mode, as it relates to user accounts. However, in a business setting, you may use NIS, LDAP,
or Samba to get user account lists that allow access to your computer and other computers
on your LAN. If the latter is the case, select Network Client and choose either NIS
(a common facility used by UNIX systems to share configuration files) or LDAP (a standard
directory service, used to share address books and other kinds of information on a
network), depending on what your company supports.
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