OSF DCE Administration Guide--Introduction

Conﬁguring DCE

8.6.2 Specifying the Removal of Previous Conﬁgurations

When you conﬁgure your cell initially, by selecting items from the Initial Cell

Conﬁguration menu, or when you conﬁgure DCE clients or DFS clients, you may receive

the following prompt:

Do you wish to first remove all remnants of

previous DCE configurations for all components (y/n)?

You should do so if you plan on re-configuring

all existing DCE components now.

This prompt appears once in each dce_conﬁg session. This means that once you answer

it, it will not appear again unless you exit dce_conﬁg and then restart dce_conﬁg. The

prompt asks whether or not you want to remove the previous DCE conﬁgurations.

To answer the prompt, you have two choices:

• Type n and press <RETURN> if any of the following are true:

— This the ﬁrst time you have conﬁgured DCE on the machine or you removed the

previous conﬁguration with the REMOVE option

— If you are reconﬁguring only some of the components

• Type y and press <RETURN> if you are reconﬁguring all components.

If you enter y, dce_conﬁg stops all DCE daemons and deletes any data ﬁles

associated with the daemons. It displays messages telling you what it is doing while

it does it.

8.7 Performing Initial Cell Conﬁguration

This section describes the tasks to conﬁgure the master Security server, the initial CDS

server, and DTS time servers and time providers. These servers are the basic servers

required for any cell. You must conﬁgure the master Security server and the initial CDS

server before you can conﬁgure client machines, any DFS servers, and Security and CDS

replicas. See "Conﬁguring Additional Servers" for information on conﬁguring client

machines, DFS servers, and Security and CDS replicas.

In the subsections that follow, all procedures start at the Initial Cell Conﬁguration menu.

8.7.1 Accessing the Initial Cell Conﬁguration menu

All initial cell conﬁguration functions are accessed from the Initial Cell Conﬁguration

menu. To access the Initial Cell Conﬁguration menu, at the DCE Conﬁguration Menu,

type 1 and press <RETURN>.

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