How to Set Global Preferences for a Remote Domain

To assign server preferences for an individual machine in a remote domain or all the machines on a subnet in a remote domain:

Run nisprefadm with the -C, -G, and -d options.

#nisprefadm -a -G -C name \
 -d domain servers(preferences)

Where:

• name is the IP number of a subnet or the name of a machine. The modifications you make with this command apply to the subnet or machine that you name.

• domainname is the name of the remote domain.

• servers(preferences) are one or more servers with optional preference ranking numbers.

For example, to add the nismaster2 server with a default preference number of zero to the preferred server list of the 111.11.111.11 subnet in the remote sales.doc.com domain:

polaris# nisprefadm -a -G -C 111.11.111.11 -d sales.doc.com. nismaster2