How to Set Global Preferences for a Remote NIS+ Domain

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

1. 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 10.10.111.11 subnet in the remote sales.doc.com domain:

   polaris# nisprefadm -a -G -C 10.10.111.11 -d sales.doc.com. nismaster2