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

Chapter 6

Setting Up and Configuring Network Information Service

This chapter describes the initial set up and configuration of the Network Information Service (NIS).

This chapter covers the following topics:

• Configuring NIS

• 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

Screen messages or NIS map names might use "host name" or "machine name".