What is DCE

[Dinesh_15]

Hi Everybody

My server is instaaled with DCE.
What exactly is this?
Why it is required?

Can anybody able to give some info

Rgds
Dinu

[Victor Fridyev]

DCE (Distributed Computing Environment) Product
A type of computing in which different components and objects comprising an application can be located on different computers connected to a network. So, for example, a word processing application might consist of an editor component on one computer, a spell-checker object on a second computer, and a thesaurus on a third computer. In some distributed computing systems, each of the three computers could even be running a different operating system.

One of the requirements of distributed computing is a set of standards that specify how objects communicate with one another. There are currently two chief distributed computing standards: CORBA and DCOM.

[Dinesh_15]

Hi Victor

Thanks ..

My system is using SAP . can you explain in brief how it is used in this case?

Rgds
Dinu

[Victor Fridyev]

Dinu, sorry, no idea. I don't have any experience with that.

[RAC_1]

Read the man pages of
dce_config (1m) - Configures and starts up DCE
dce_intro ("1m") - Introduction to the general DCE administration tools
dce_login ("1m") - Validates a principal's identity and obtains the principal's network credentials
dce_version (8) - print version information for HP DCE/9000 components
dcecp (1m) - Administrative interface for DCE management tasks
dced ("1m") - DCE Host daemon
dceping ("8") - test the ability to contact DCE services from a local DCE client.