Solaris Domains 2

[sm42]

Hello

In Windows we have computers that are attached to a Domain.

How is this possible with a bunch of Solaris servers?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Annihilannic]

For what purpose do you want to attach them to a Windows domain?

You can use SAMBA to join a Windows domain and share filesystems like you would from a Windows system.

You can use the pam_smb tool to authenticate users against a Windows domain.

Annihilannic.

 

[sm42]

I don't want to join a windows domain.

Can solaris servers have their own domain?

 

[kHz]

I don't use Windows for anything since I got the Notes client running on Unix (and it is faster than on Windows, too), so I don't know what Windows domains are, however, midrange and high-end Solaris servers are partionable and can multiple domains. A domain in these servers are hard partionalbe and have a certain number of cpu's and memory plus other resources allocated to them.

With Solaris 10 you can use zones that can be thought of as soft partitions. But you cannot run multiple OS versions. With partitions each domain can have its own OS version.

Don't know if that helps.

 

[Annihilannic]

Unfortunately "domain" can have many different meanings... there are four I can think of for starters:

[ul][li]A DNS (domain name service) domain, such as example.com[/li]
[li]An E10K/E15K (and others?) hardware domain, like kHz was talking about[/li]
[li]A Windows Domain[/li]
[li]A NIS or NIS+ domain[/li][/ul]

I suspect the last one may do what you are thinking of; it allows you to manage users, hosts files, printers and any other directory services from a central host or hosts.

Annihilannic.

 

[sm42]

Yes, NIS will be the one then.


Thanks

 

[dandan123]

But isn't Sun moving away from NIS and NIS+ and moving towards LDAP ?

 

[cndcadams]

dadan123;

Yes you are correct they are moving away from NIS and NIS+.
LDAP is the suggested at this time.

Thanks

CA

 

[kHz]

I believe NIS+ support isn't offered anymore.

 

[jaytco]

As long as you have a software contract SUN will support NIS+. If you install NIS+ on solaris 10 or later, you will see a note that it may not be supported in later versions.