Setting Up the Authentication Server

Solstice Network Client provides a mechanism for central management of clients from a server in the network. System policy files, user profiles, logon scripts, and SNC scripts can be stored on the authentication server (the server running the pcnfsd daemon) and made available to a user logging into a client computer anywhere on the network. The files are stored in the directory /opt/MSPolicy on the authentication server.

If you have more than one authentication server, you must ensure that the appropriate files and scripts are available to clients on the network. You can do this by:

• Setting up duplicate scripts and files on each authentication server. If a client broadcasts for an authentication server, it will get the same scripts no matter which server responds.

• Setting up a specific authentication server for each user's network configuration. You can then maintain the appropriate files and scripts on the authentication server assigned to a user or to groups of users.