Before You Start

Before you install and configure the DirXML^(R) Driver for NIS, keep in mind the following constraints:

• The driver can be run only on the application platform; that is, the machine where the Files, NIS, or NIS+ databases exist. If Novell^(R) eDirectory^TM and the DirXML Engine 2.0 are not installed on the application platform, you must use the Remote Loader to run the driver. For more information, refer to Configuring the Remote Loader.

  注:  DirXML Driver for NIS needs to be installed on the Remote Loader platform.

• The driver application shim utility tries to locate the dependent utilities at the paths /usr/bin/, /bin/, /usr/sbin/, /usr/local/bin/, and /usr/lib/yp/.
  • Ensure that the awk, make, and makedbm utilities are available at any one of the paths mentioned above.
  • On Solaris, nawk utility must be available in any one of the paths mentioned above.
  • On HP-UX, nawk utility must be available, if not, create a soft link to gawk" as "nawk" at any of the paths mentioned above.
• NIS or NIS+ should be configured before running drivers on the application platform.
• If the application platform hosts either NIS or NIS+, you must run the driver on the NIS(YP) and NIS+ master servers only.
• The makedbm utility should be available on the application platform.

  This is required for the Files and NIS(YP) drivers only. This utility is available when you install the ypserv package.

• For remote installation of NIS 2.0 PAM module, SSH must be set up between the source machine and the target machine.