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

Configuring NIS

Before configuring your NIS namespace, you must do the following:

• Plan your NIS domain. See Planning Your NIS Domain for details.

• Install properly configured name service switch information on all the systems that will be using NIS. See About the Name Service Switch for details.

The following procedures are used to configure NIS:

• How to Prepare Source Files for Conversion to NIS Maps

• How to Set Up the NIS Master Server

• Starting and Stopping NIS Services on an NIS Server

• How to Set Up a Slave Server

• Administering NIS Clients