OSF DCE Administration Guide--Introduction

Chapter 8. Conﬁguring DCE

This chapter describes how to use the dce_conﬁg script to conﬁgure DCE software once

that software has been installed.

Note: Because of differences in DCE R1.1 platforms, the output in the sample

procedures in this chapter may differ slightly from the output you see when

you run the dce_conﬁg script.

This chapter also describes how to use the Code Set Registry Compiler (csrc) to build a

code set registry once DCE software has been conﬁgured. This step is only necessary if

you are conﬁguring an "internationalized" DCE cell, which is a cell that supports RPC

applications that use a wide variety of languages other than U.S. English.

8.1 Prerequisites

Before you can conﬁgure DCE software, you must have installed it on each machine that

you are conﬁguring. See Chapter 7 for instructions on installing the DCE software.

You must run dce_conﬁg on the machine you are conﬁguring. You cannot conﬁgure a

machine remotely. Additionally you must be logged into the local machine as root.

8.2 Order of Conﬁguration

You must conﬁgure machines in a cell in the following order:

1. The master Security server

2. The initial CDS server

3. A DTS server

4. A single DTS time provider

5. DCE client machines

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