Operation Manual

22
SLP Services in the Network
The service location protocol (SLP) was developed to simplify the conguration of
networked clients within a local network. To congure a network client, including all
required services, the administrator traditionally needs detailed knowledge of the servers
available in the network. SLP makes the availability of selected services known to all
clients in the local network. Applications that support SLP can use the information
distributed and be congured automatically.
openSUSE® supports installation using installation sources provided with SLP and
contains many system services with integrated support for SLP. YaST and Konqueror
both have appropriate front-ends for SLP. You can use SLP to provide networked clients
with central functions, such as an installation server, le server, or print server on your
system.
IMPORTANT: SLP Support in openSUSE
Services that offer SLP support include cupsd, rsyncd, ypserv, openldap2, ksys-
guardd, saned, kdm, vnc, login, smpppd, rpasswd , postx, and sshd (via sh).
22.1 Installation
All packages necessary to use SLP services are installed by default. However, if you
want to provide services via SLP, check that the openslp-server package is in-
stalled. For SLP daemon server conguration install the yast2-slp-server
package.
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