The administrator setting up the client's credentials must have:
A valid DES credential
Modify rights to the cred table in the client's home domain
The client must have:
Read rights to the directory object of its home domain
The client's home domain must already be configured and running NIS+
An entry in either the master server's /etc/hosts or /etc/inet/ipnodes file or in its domain's hosts or ipnodes table
A unique machine name that does duplicate any user ID
A machine name that does not contain any dots. (For example, a machine named sales.alpha is not allowed; a machine named sales-alpha is allowed.)