Prerequisites

The administrator setting up the client's credentials must have:

• A valid DES credential

• Modify rights to the cred table in the client's home domain

The client must have:

• Read rights to the directory object of its home domain

• The client's home domain must already be configured and running NIS+

• An entry in either the master server's /etc/hosts file or in its domain's hosts table

• A unique machine name that does duplicate any user ID

• A machine name that does not contain any dots. (For example, a machine named sales.alpha is not allowed; a machine named sales-alpha is allowed.)