Complete Table of Contents for bookThe procedures in this chapter show you how to create a sample NIS+ namespace. The sample NIS+ namespace will be created from /etc files and NIS maps. This sample shows you how to use the scripts both when your site is not running NIS and when NIS is running at your site. You can set your servers to NIS-compatibility mode if they will be serving NIS clients. See NIS+ Transition Guide and Solaris Naming Administration Guide for more information on NIS-compatibility mode.
Your site's actual NIS+ namespace and its domain hierarchy probably differs from the sample namespace's, and yours probably contains a different number of servers, clients, and domains. Do not expect any resemblance between your final domain configuration or hierarchy and the sample one. The sample namespace is only an illustration of how to use the NIS+ scripts. After you have created this sample namespace, you should have a clear idea about how to create domains, servers, and clients at your site.
The sample namespace contains the following components:
A root master server named master for the doc.com. domain
Four clients of the root domain, doc.com.:
The first client, client1, will become a root replica (for the doc.com. domain).
The second client, client2, will become a master server for a new subdomain (for the sub.doc.com. domain).
The third client, client3, will become a non-root replica server of the new subdomain (for the sub.doc.com. domain).
The fourth client, client4, will remain solely a client of the root domain (doc.com.).
Two clients, subclient1 and subclient2, of the subdomain (sub.doc.com.).
This scenario shows the scripts being used to configure NIS+ at a site that uses both system information files, such as /etc/hosts, and NIS maps to store network service information. The sample NIS+ namespace uses such a mixed site purely for example purposes.
NIS+ Domains Configuration Command Lines Summary contains the generic sequence of NIS+ scripts and commands you will use to create an example NIS+ domain. Subsequent sections describe these command lines in detail. After you are familiar with the tasks required to create NIS+ domains, servers, and clients, use NIS+ Domains Configuration Command Lines Summary as a quick-reference guide to the appropriate command lines. NIS+ Domains Configuration Command Lines Summary is a summary of the actual commands with the appropriate variables that you will type to create the sample NIS+ namespace.
To see what commands an NIS+ script calls, without actually having the commands execute, use the -x option. The -x option causes the command names and their approximate output to echo to the screen as if you were actually running the script. Running the scripts for the first time with -x may minimize unexpected results. For more information, see the man pages for the scripts.