DCE and DFS for Linux Installation and Configuration Guide

1 — DCE and DFS for Linux Product Overview


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This chapter gives an overview of the product and the licensing scheme and contains the following sections:

1.1 Introduction
1.2 Product Licensing

1.1 Introduction

Distributed computing services, as implemented in the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE), provide an important enabling software technology for the development of distributed applications. DCE makes the underlying network architecture transparent to application developers. It consists of a software layer between the operating system and network interface and the distributed application. It provides a variety of common services needed to develop distributed applications, such as name, time, and security services, and a standard remote procedure call interface.

Entegrity DCE and DFS for Linux® extends the DCE services to Red Hat® Linux Clients. This product is based on OSF DCE Release 1.2.2.

1.2 Product Licensing

Entegrity DCE and DFS for Linux are licensed products that need electronic licenses to run. If you are evaluating the product, you receive licenses that are valid for a short period of time. After you purchase the product, you receive licenses that are valid indefinitely.

There are six license files, supplied on a diskette or available through Entegrity Solutions Technical Support. You receive licences only for those products you purchase. For example, if you did not purchase DFS for Linux, then you will not receive licenses for that product.

The license files are as follows:

Copy these files into /opt/dcelocal/bin/ before configuring the DCE software.

If you downloaded this software, you read and accepted the license agreement. If you have the CD, be sure to read the License.txt file at the same level as the readme.txt file. The first time you configure the client, a prompt asks you to confirm that you agree that you have read and accepted the license.


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