Distributed Computing Environment: Difference between revisions

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There are three major components of DCE : (1) the security server (which is responsible for authentication) (2) The Cell Directory Server (CDS) (which is the respository of resources and ACLs) and (3) The Distributed Time Server which provides an accurate clock for proper functioning of the entire cell. Modern DCE implementations such as IBM's are fully capable of interoperating with Kerberos as the security server, LDAP for the CDS and the [[Network Time Protocol]] implementations for the time server.

While it is possible to implement a distributed file system using plain old DCE by defining files to the CDS and defining the appropriate ACLs on them, this is not user-friendly. DCE/DFS (Distributed Filesystem - not to be confused with the Microsoft product called DFSDfs which is NOT interoperable with DCE) is a DCE based application which provides a distributed filesystem on DCE.

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