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

Creating NIS+ Subdomain Replicas

The same principles that apply to root domain replicas apply to subdomain replicas (see Creating an NIS+ Root Replica Server).

You use the same procedure to create a subdomain replica as you do to create a root replica. The major difference between creating the root replica and a subdomain replica is that the machine you are going to convert to a subdomain replica remains a client of the domain above the one it serves as a replica. This example shows you only what you type to create a replica for the new domain. For the rest of the script's output, see How to Create an NIS+ Root Replica.

How to Create an NIS+ Replica

Before You Begin

Before you run nisserver to create a replica, be sure the following prerequisites have been met.

The domain must have already been configured and its master server must be running.
The domain's tables must be populated. (At a minimum, the hosts table must have an entry for the new client machine.)
You must have initialized the client machine in the parent domain.
You must have started the NIS+ service, rpc.nisd, on the client.
You must be logged in as root on the master server. In this example, the master machine is named client2.

You need the following information to run nisserver.

The domain name
The client machine name (client3, in this example)
The superuser password for the root master server

Run the nisserver -R command as superuser (root) on the NIS+ domain's master server.

client2# nisserver -R -d sales.doc.com. -h client3
This script sets up an NIS+ replica server for domain sales.doc.com.
Domain name 	::sales.doc.com.
NIS+ server :client
Is this information correct? (type 'y' to accept, 'n' to change)

In this example, client2 is the master server. The -R option indicates that a replica should be configured. The -d option specifies the NIS+ domain name (sales.doc.com. in this example). The -h option specifies the client machine (client3, in this example) that will become the replica. Notice that this machine is still a client of the doc.com. domain and not a client of the sales.doc.com. domain.

See How to Create an NIS+ Root Replica for the rest of this script's output.