OSF DCE Administration Guide--Introduction

OSF DCE Administration Guide—Introduction

8.9 Conﬁguring DCE Clients

After you conﬁgure your cell’s master Security server and initial CDS server, you

should conﬁgure each machine in the cell as a DCE client. Then you can conﬁgure

additional servers and replicas as described in "Conﬁguring Additional Servers."

When you conﬁgure a DCE client you set up the machine as a client of the core DCE

Services: Security, CDS, and DTS.

To conﬁgure a DCE client machine, perform the following steps:

1. At the DCE Conﬁguration Menu, type 3 and press <RETURN>.

The dce_conﬁg script displays:

S:****** Configuring client...

The dce_conﬁg script prompts:

What is the name of the Security Server for this cell:

2. Type the name of the machine that was conﬁgured as the master Security server

and press <RETURN>.

Then dce_conﬁg prompts for name of the initial CDS server machine:

What is the name of the CDS server in this cell

(if there is more than one, enter the name of

the server to be cached if necessary) ?

3. Type the name of the machine that was conﬁgured as the initial CDS server and

press <RETURN>.

The cdsadv daemon ﬁnds the initial CDS server, and then prompts:

Then, the dce_conﬁg script prompts:

Create LAN profile so clients and servers can be divided into profile

groups for higher performance in a multi-LAN cell? (n)

4. At this point you have two choices:

a. Type y to conﬁgure the machine with multiple local area network (LAN)

capabilities and press <RETURN>. You may want to use multiple LANs

to organize how applications ﬁnd objects in the namespace. When you

respond y, the dce_conﬁg script creates a LAN proﬁle that allows the

DTS clerks to synchronize with DTS servers on the local LAN.

The dce_conﬁg script prompts for the name of the LAN:

What is the name of the LAN?

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