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Updated: October 2017

Working With Oracle^® Solaris 11.3 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

Chapter 7 Administering Network Information Service

Chapter 8 Troubleshooting Network Information System

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Chapter 2

About the Name Service Switch

This chapter describes the name service switch. You use the name service switch to coordinate usage of different naming services.

This chapter contains the following topics:

Overview of the Name Service Switch
Configuring the Name Service Switch
Name Service Switch and Password Information

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