OSF DCE Administration Guide--Introduction

Conﬁguring DCE

8.8.2.2 Handling Conﬁguration Errors

If you receive either of these messages, the clearinghouse is in an intermediate state and

cannot be used or deleted, although the rest of the cell namespace and other servers are

unaffected. To recover:

1. Skulk the root directory

2. Use the create clearinghouse /.:/clearinghouse_name command while you are

logged in as the initial privileged user on the newly conﬁgured CDS server

machine. This command manually completes the conﬁguration of the new server

and its clearinghouse.

3. Finally, skulk the root directory again.

In rare circumstances, you may see the following error, which you can ignore.

ERROR: cdscp error during "define cached server" command.

Message from cdscp:

Failure in routine: cp_define_cached_server; code = 282111142

Cached Server clearinghouse already exists (dce / cds)

The error results from dce_conﬁg trying to repeat an operation it has already performed.

8.8.3 Conﬁguring Additional DTS Servers

The steps to conﬁgure additional DTS servers (selection 2 from the Additional Server

Conﬁguration menu) are the same as the steps to conﬁgure the initial DTS servers. See

Section 8.7.4 for instructions.

8.8.4 Conﬁguring DFS Servers

You can conﬁgure the following types of DFS servers:

• A System Control machine, which distributes system conﬁguration information that

is shared by all DFS server machines in a cell.

• A Fileset Location Database machine, which tracks and records the locations of all

ﬁlesets. At least one is required in each cell. You can run multiple Fileset Location

Database servers for to help ensure the server’s availability at all times.

• A File Server machine, which exports LFS and non-LFS data to the global DFS

namespace.

• A Private File Server, which also exports ﬁle system data to the global DFS

namespace. A private File Server machine is controlled by the owner of the

machine, not by the system administrator. The purpose of a private File Server

machine is to allow individual users to export a small number of ﬁlesets. A Private

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