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?
Type the name and press <Return>. You can enter any arbitrary name. The name is used by dce_config to store cell profile information.
b. Type n to not configure the machine with multiple LAN capabilities and press <Return>.
The dce_config script displays the following message:
S:****** This node is now a CDS client
and then the following prompt:
Should this machine be configured as a DTS Clerk, DTS Local Server,
or DTS Global Server? (Default is DTS Clerk)
(clerk, local, global, none)
5. At this point you can type any of the following entries:
· clerk to configure a DTS Clerk
· local to configure a DTS Local server
· global to configure a DTS Local server
· none to not configure any DTS server on the machine
If you choose to configure a DTS server, dce_config displays messages as it starts the appropriate DTS daemons. Then, dce_config completes the configuration and returns the DCE Configuration Menu.