Audience

This guide is written for system and network administrators who have previously administered a UNIX environment.

Applicability
This revision applies to the OSFŽ DCE Release 1.2.2 offering and related updates. (See your software license for details.)

Purpose
The purpose of this guide is to help system and network administrators to plan, configure, and manage DCE. After reading the guide, you will understand what the system administrator needs to do to plan for DCE. Once you have built the DCE source code on your system, use this guide to assist you in installing executable files and configuring DCE. The OSF DCE Release Notes contain instructions for installing and building DCE source code.

Document Usage
The OSF DCE Administration Guide consists of two books, each of which is divided into parts, as follows:

ˇ The OSF DCE Administration Guide - Introduction

- Part 1. Introduction to DCE Administration

- Part 2. Configuring and Starting Up DCE

ˇ The OSF DCE Administration Guide - Core Components

- Part 1. The DCE Control Program

- Part 2. DCE Administration Tasks

- Part 3. DCE Host and Application Administration

- Part 4. DCE Cell Directory Service

- Part 5. DCE Distributed Time Service

- Part 6. DCE Security Service