Working With the Name Services Transition Kit 1.2

The Name Services Transition Kit 1.2 is designed to allow you to support a NIS server running Solaris 2.x. Installing the software and setting up the Solaris 2.x NIS servers is described in the Naming Services Transition Kit 1.2 Administrator's Guide. The Solstice AutoClient software can manage information using the NIS name service supported by Solaris 2.x NIS servers installed with the Name Services Transition Kit 1.2 software.

On NIS servers installed with the Solaris 2.x OS Release, the Name Service Transition Kit 1.2, and the Solstice AutoClient software, the configuration files stored in /etc directory are modified by the Solstice AutoClient applications (these files are in turn automatically converted to NIS maps). If the NIS server is not installed with the Solstice AutoClient software, then the directory location specified by the $DIR variable in the /var/yp/Makefile is used.