Sun Microsystems 5310 NAS 2.24 NIS/NIS+ Issues

2-104 Sun StorEdge 5310 NAS Troubleshooting Guide • December 2004
Does StorEdge support DFS?
DFS (distributed file system) is a hierarchical file system that allows files to be stored
across multiple servers and managed as a single group.
StorEdge can serve as a DFS target. This means that DFS referrals can redirect clients
to StorEdge, but StorEdge does not provide referrals and cannot be configured as a
root replica.
What support is there for Windows Server Manager?
StorEdge currently supports the following operations in Server Manager:
■View a list of shared resources
■Add a new share
■Delete a share
■View a list of services running on StorEdge
■View a list of connected users
Note – Dialogs that offer the supported operations may also offer other operations
but support is limited to the options listed above.
2.24 NIS/NIS+ Issues
How do I set up NIS or NIS+?
NIS and NIS+ provide information to a simple networked database with information
about users and hosts. NIS works by copying files from the NIS server to the
StorEdge, NIS+ works by performing remote lookups to these files stored on a NIS+
server, and adds several other features.
1. To access this functionality, access the StorEdge via Telnet or serial console.
2. Press [Enter] at the [menu] prompt and enter th e administrator password.
3. Select option “I”, “NIS & NIS+”. A list of options for both NIS and NIS+ is
displayed, as follows:
■Network Information Services (NIS)
■Enable—Enables or disable NIS.
■NIS Domain—Defines the NIS domain.