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System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (FNS and NIS+)

Setting Up FNS: An Overview

After your Solaris operating environment software is installed, you must perform the following tasks to set up FNS:

  1. Make sure that your servers can handle FNS. See Determining Resource Requirements.

  2. Prepare your namespace for FNS. See Preparing the Namespace for FNS.

  3. Set up the FNS namespace contexts. There are two ways to do this:

    1. Globally create all contexts in one process. See Creating Global FNS Namespace Contexts.

    2. Individually create your FNS contexts.

  4. Set up FNS replica servers. See Replicating FNS Service.

Depending on the size of the organization, you should allow several hours for the FNS setup to be completed, plus additional time for namespace preparation.