Prerequisites to Running nisserver

Before you can run nisserver to create a replica:

• The domain must already have been configured and its master server must be running.

• The tables of the master server must be populated. (At a minimum, the hosts table must have an entry for the new client machine.)

• You must have initialized the new server as a client machine in the domain, as described in Setting Up NIS+ Client Machines.

• You must have started rpc.nisd on the new replica server, as described in Setting Up NIS+ Servers.

• You must be logged in as root on the root master server. In this example, the root master machine is named master1.

Information You Need

You need:

• The domain name

• The client machine name; (client1, in this example)

• The superuser password for the root master server