iX 6.5)

Preface

This manual describes how to conﬁgure and operate Internet Services

on the HP 3000. It is written for members of the system administration

staff who have been assigned system manager (SM) or system

supervisor (OP) capability and who are responsible for installing,

conﬁguring and managing system and network software. As such, it

presumes a good understanding of networking concepts and familiarity

with HP 3000 system operations. Conﬁguring and Managing Internet

Services is

not

intended for the end user of Internet Services such as

tftp and telnet.

This manual is organized into the following chapters:

Chapter 1 , “Introduction to Internet Services,” describes in summary

fashion each of the utilities that comprise the Internet Services

product. It also includes instructions for installing and conﬁguring the

services ﬁle and protocols ﬁle.

Chapter 2 , “Internet Daemon,” describes the function and

conﬁguration of the Internet daemon inetd and provides

troubleshooting guidelines.

Chapter 3 , “Telnet Service,” explains how to conﬁgure the telnet server

and offers troubleshooting guidelines.

Chapter 4 , “BOOTP Service,” describes how to conﬁgure the Bootstrap

Protocol daemon, provides examples that show how to add bootp clients

and routing instructions to the HP 3000, and offers troubleshooting

guidelines.

Chapter 5 , “TFTP Service,” describes how to conﬁgure the Trivial File

Transfer Protocol daemon and explains tftpd security considerations

and troubleshooting guidelines.

Chapter 6 , “REMSH Service,” describes how remsh or remote shell is

used to connect to a speciﬁed host and execute a command on that host.

This remote shell or remsh is available with version C.60.00 of the

MPE/iX operating system.

Chapter 7 , “Samba/iX Services,” describes how the suite of programs

work together to allow clients to access a server’s ﬁle space and

printers, via the Server Message Block (SMB) ﬁle server.

Chapter 8 , “DNS BIND/iX,” describes BIND and its implementation of

Domain Name System (DNS).

Appendix A , “Samba/iX Sample Comﬁguration File,” shows and

example of the samp-smb.conf conﬁguration ﬁle.

Appendix B , “BIND 8 Conﬁguration File,” describes the BIND 8

conﬁguration ﬁle.