Prerequisites to Running nisserver

Check to see that the /etc/passwd file on the machine you want to be root master server contains an entry for root.

Information You Need

You need the following:

• The superuser password of the workstation that will become the root master server

• The name of the new root domain. The root domain name must have at least two elements (labels) and end in a dot (for example, something.com.). The last element may be anything you want, but in order to maintain Internet compatibility, the last element must be either an Internet organizational name (as shown in Table 4-3), or a two or three character geographic identifier such as .jp. for Japan.

In the following example, the machine that is designated as the root master server is called master1, and doc.com. becomes the new root domain.

Domains and hosts should not have the same name. For example, if you have doc.com as a root domain, you should not have a machine named doc in any of your domains. Similarly, if you have a machine named home, you do not want to create a domain named home. This caution also applies to subdomains; for example, if you have a machine named west, you do not want to create a sales.west.myco.com subdomain.