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Updated: November 2020

Working With Oracle^® Solaris 11.4 Directory and Naming Services: DNS and NIS

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Using This Documentation

Chapter 1 About Naming and Directory Services

Chapter 2 About the Name Service Switch

Chapter 3 Managing DNS Server and Client Services

Chapter 4 Setting Up Oracle Solaris Active Directory Clients

Chapter 5 About the Network Information Service

Chapter 6 Setting Up and Configuring Network Information Service

Configuring NIS

NIS and the Service Management Facility

Planning Your NIS Domain

Preparing the NIS Master Server

Starting and Stopping NIS Services on an NIS Server

Setting Up NIS Slave Servers

Administering NIS Clients

Chapter 7 Administering the Network Information Service

Chapter 8 Troubleshooting Network Information System

DNS and NIS Glossary

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Preparing the NIS Master Server

The following sections describe how to prepare the source files and the passwd files for the master server:

The following tasks prepare the NIS master server:

How to Prepare Source Files for Conversion to NIS Maps
How to Install the NIS Master Server Package
How to Set Up the NIS Master Server
How to Support Multiple NIS Domains on One Master Server

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