Managing Trusted Network Communications

The Trusted Solaris operating environment supports network communications between Trusted Solaris computers and any of the following types of computers:

• Other computers running the Trusted Solaris operating environment.

• Computers running operating environments that do not recognize security attributes but do support TCP/IP (such as Solaris and other UNIX systems, Windows, and MacOS)

• Computers running other trusted operating systems that recognize some of the Trusted Solaris security attributes

Network communications and services are managed by several Trusted Solaris subsystems.

• Trusted NFS manages mounts of file systems from other computers.

  Mounts among Trusted Solaris computers and other computers that recognize NFS are supported. See Chapter 9, Managing Files and File Systems for more on mounting.

• NIS and NIS+ provide centralized management of configuration files defining hosts, networks and users.

  See Chapter 10, Managing Name Services for NIS and NIS+ differences in the Trusted Solaris environment.

• The Solaris Management Console is used to centrally manage users, computers, and networks.

  The Trusted Solaris Installation and Configuration guide describes how to add new workstations and servers during configuration of a distributed system. See Chapter 8, Specifying Routing and Security for Remote Computers for additional details about how to set up security attributes for computers.

• Trusted networking and extended routing software supports trusted network communications.