Preface
Solaris Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (DNS, NIS and LDAP) describes the setup and administration of the SolarisTM Operating System (Solaris OS)
naming and directory services: DNS, NIS, and LDAP. This manual is part of
System and Network Administration manual set for the Solaris Express Developer Edition
5/07 release.
Note - This Solaris release supports systems that use the SPARC®
and x86 families of
processor architectures: UltraSPARC®
, SPARC64, AMD64, Pentium, and Xeon EM64T. The supported
systems appear in the Solaris OS: Hardware Compatibility Lists at https://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl. This document cites any implementation differences between
the platform types.
In this document these x86 related terms mean the following:
“x86” refers to the larger family of 64-bit and 32-bit x86 compatible products.
“x64” points out specific 64-bit information about AMD64 or EM64T systems.
“32-bit x86” points out specific 32-bit information about x86 based systems.
For supported systems, see the Solaris OS: Hardware Compatibility Lists.