| ### Output The DCE configuration routines return names without global or cell-relative prefixes, such as: host_directory/hostname or: principalname where: host_directory is usually hosts. However, the DCE NSI (Name Service Interface) routines require names passed to them to be expressed either in a cell-relative form, such as: /.:/host_directory/hostname or as global names, with the global root prefix /.../ and the cell name, such as: /.../cellname/host_directory/hostname Therefore, an application must add either the cell-relative (/.:/) or correct global (/.../cellname) prefix to any name it receives from a DCE configuration routine before it passes the name to an NSI routine. (NSI routines all have names beginning with rpc_ns_.) For example, the name host_directory/hostname would become, if expressed in cell-relative form: /.:/hosts/hostname The cell-relative form of the name principalname would be: /.:/sec/principals/principalname where: hostname and principalname are the host's name and principal name, respectively. ###