After you install

After you install

After you install UnixWare 7, you should make a complete backup of the system and create emergency recovery disks.

Once you complete these tasks, you can:

configure additional hardware devices
configure software, such as the mail system and users and groups
choose your desktop and configure it
use scohelp to learn more about the system
install, license and register software products
configure your video adapter and monitor

Complete documentation on all of these tasks is found in SCOhelp, the UnixWare 7 documentation browser based on Netscape Navigator Gold TRADEMARK

3. This chapter and those following present a brief introduction to these initial setup tasks, with pointers to the UnixWare 7 System Handbook and SCOhelp for more information.

Configuring additional hardware

The UnixWare 7 system provides SCOadmin managers and other utilities with which you can install and configure additional hardware.

Audio

Use the Audio Configuration Manager to add and configure sound cards. You can play and record audio files with the scosound(X1) utility.

For more information, see ``Configuring audio adapters'' in the UnixWare 7 System Handbook or SCOhelp.

Printers

Use the Printer Setup Manager to:

add, modify, copy, or remove local and remote printers
specify the default printer
enable or disable a printer
set the printer up to accept or reject print jobs

For more information, see ``Managing the print service'' in the UnixWare 7 System Handbook or SCOhelp.

Network

Use the Network Configuration Manager to configure LAN network adapter drivers, WAN hardware, and LAN and WAN protocols.

For more information, see ``Configuring network adapters'' in SCOhelp.

Video

Use the Video Configuration Manager to:

add or remove graphics adapters from your system
add or remove monitors from your system
change the resolution and mode of your graphics devices

Modems

Use the Modem Manager to add serial modems to your system.

NOTE: PCMCIA modems are configured using the Device Configuration Utility.

ISDN bus adapters are configured with the Network Configuration Manager.

For more information, see ``Adding and configuring modems'' in the UnixWare 7 System Handbook or SCOhelp.

Serial lines

Use the Serial Manager to configure individual serial ports on COM1 through COM4.

For more information, see ``Configuring serial ports'' in the UnixWare 7 System Handbook or SCOhelp.

Mass storage

Use the Device Configuration Utility (DCU) to add support for tape, CD-ROM, and hard disk drives which were not auto-detected during the installation process.

Configuring and administering the system

SCOadmin is the primary system administration tool in UnixWare 7. With SCOadmin managers, you can configure and then administer these key services on your system:

Users and Groups

Use the Account Manager to:

add, modify and remove users and groups
change a user's locale
set remote access permissions
modify system user and group defaults

See ``Administering user accounts'' in the UnixWare 7 System Handbook or SCOhelp for additional capabilities and information.

Filesystems

Use the Filesystem Manager to add, modify, and remove filesystems.

See ``Administering filesystems'' in the UnixWare 7 System Handbook or SCOhelp for additional capabilities and information.

FTP

Use the FTP Server Manager to:

enable anonymous ftp
control access to your ftp server and its files and directories
view ftp log files

See ``Administering File Transfer Protocol (FTP) servers'' in SCOhelp for additional capabilities and information.

Name Service

Use the DNS Manager to:

configure a host as a name server
modify zone configuration files
define resource records and other configuration information

See ``Administering Domain Name System (DNS) servers'' in SCOhelp for additional capabilities and information.

Mail

Use the Mail Manager to configure the mail system on your computer.

See ``Configuring mail and messaging'' in SCOhelp for additional capabilities and information.

Network protocols

Use the Network Configuration Manager to:

add, modify, and remove network protocols (TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, and PPP)
add, modify, and remove network hardware from your system

See ``Configuring LAN connections'' and ``Configuring WAN connections'' in SCOhelp for additional capabilities and information.

Additional SCOadmin managers enable you to configure advanced networking, security, process management, and other capabilities. For general information on using SCOadmin, see ``Administering your system with SCOadmin'' in the UnixWare 7 System Handbook.

To administer SCO VisionFS, use the visionfs(1M) command on the UNIX server or run the VisionFS Profile Editor on the Windows client. For more information, see File and Print Services for Windows clients through VisionFS in SCOhelp.

Specifying a desktop to use

By default, UnixWare 7 displays the graphical login program, dtgreet, when you boot the system into multiuser mode. To choose a desktop, select one of the following from the graphical login's Sessions menu:

CDE Desktop

This desktop is the preferred desktop for UnixWare 7. It conforms to the Common Desktop Environment standard, and provides the following features:

a convenient, easy to use task bar
calendar and help applications
access to all SCOadmin managers and UnixWare 7 configuration tools from the desktop
a graphical login

This desktop is enabled by default.

For more information on the CDE desktop, click above the Help icon on the CDE desktop, then click on CDE Help.

Panorama Desktop

This desktop, based on pmwm release 2.0, contains the following features:

standard task bar
panner window
desktop preferences editor
cascading root menu
calendar, mail, and login clients

For more information, see the manual page for pmwm(X1).

Failsafe Session

This desktop is available if you corrupt your CDE desktop configuration files. It provides a basic, uncustomized CDE desktop.

Configuring and using SCOhelp

All of the topics referred to in this chapter are available through SCOhelp, the documentation browser provided with UnixWare 7. SCOhelp is enabled by default in all system profiles except Small Footprint.

SCOhelp uses a powerful search engine powered by Verity, which allows for multi-word and boolean searches and word stemming. After you install all software and documentation, you must create the search index using the config_search(1M) command. This process takes up to an hour, but the command can be run in the background. Enter the following in a terminal window:

/usr/man/bin/config_search &

If you are indexing English language documentation only, you can enter the following to speed the indexing process:

/usr/man/bin/config_search -L en_US.ISO8859-1 &

You can start SCOhelp in any of these ways:

Enter scohelp at the command line in an xterm window on your desktop.
From the CDE desktop, double-click on the Help icon.
From the Panorama desktop, double-click on the Help icon.
From within an SCOadmin manager, point to (or highlight) the item you want help on and press <F1>. Or, click on the Help button if one is available.

For more information on configuring and using advanced features, see ``Getting help'' in SCOhelp.