OSF DCE Administration Guide--Introduction

OSF DCE Administration Guide—Introduction
If you are installing from an install tree stored on the file system, ensure you have access
to the tree either on the local machine or through a remote mount.
During the installation, you will be prompted to specify the location of the install tree. If
it is on the file system, you supply its pathname. If it is on a media device, you supply
the device name.
7.1.2 Machine Requirements
You must install the DCE binaries on each machine on which they will run. Ensure that
each machine meets the following requirements:
• Disk Space—The machine must meet the disk space requirements outlined in
Chapter 4 of this guide.
• Required Ethernet Addresses— Each machine must have an Ethernet address (a
12-digit hexadecimal number registered with the IEEE), usually contained on the
Ethernet card. Some operating systems, like the AIX for example, provide routines to
access the ethernet address from the card. Others, like OSF/1 for example, do not.
For these machines, store the ethernet address in a file named /etc/ieee_802_addr.
The file should contain the only the 12-hexadecimal digits address in text form, for
example, 08002BFFFFFF .
• Wide Area Network (WAN) Connections—If you will be configuring DCE over a
WAN, set up the following ports for receiving packets on both ends of the WAN
connection:
— udp port 88 for Kerberos
— udp port 135 for the dced daemon
— tcp port 135 for the dced daemon
— All udp and tcp ports greater than 1024 for all DCE services and applications
7.2 Installing DCE
During the installation, dce_config performs the following steps,
1. Installs the client and server executables in the correct directories.
2. Installs the message catalogs.
3. Creates administrative directories.
4. Installs the DCE library, libdce.
5. Defines the following variable names:
• DCEROOT as /opt
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