Prerequisites to Running nisclient

Before you can use the nisclient script to initialize a user:

• The domain must have already been configured and its master server must be running.

• The master server of the domain's tables must be populated. (At a minimum, the host's table must have an entry for the new client machine.)

• You must have initialized a client machine in the domain.

• You must be logged in as a user on the client machine. In this example, the user is named user1.

Information You Need

You need:

• The domain name (sales.doc.com., in this example)

• The default Secure RPC password (nisplus)

• The root password of the workstation that will become the client

• The IP address of the NIS+ server (in the client's home domain) (in this example, the address of the master server, client2)