DCE Server Machine Configuration

A DCE server machine is configured with the user server and administration server components of a DCE service. It also contains the DCE user software, since a server machine can act as a client to other servers. For example, a DTS server machine contains the DCE user plus the DTS user server and DTS administration server configuration components. It is not necessary to run one server per machine; two or more types of servers can run on a single machine. The following figure shows the configuration of a Distributed Time Server machine and the configuration of a second machine acting as both a CDS server and a security server.

DCE Server Machine Configuration Examples

From now on, we will use the term server to mean both the user server and administration server software combined; for example, the term security server means the security user server and the security administration server together.