Introduction

Overview of LDAP-UX Client Services

on the network. With NIS, account and configuration information resides on NIS servers. NIS client systems retrieve this shared configuration information across the network from NIS servers, as shown below:

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A Simplified NIS Environment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NIS master server

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Map transfers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NIS slave server

 

NIS slave server

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NIS Requests

NIS client

 

NIS client

 

NIS client

 

 

 

 

 

LDAP-UX Client Services improves on this configuration information sharing. HP-UX account and configuration information is stored in an LDAP directory, not on the local client system. Client systems retrieve this shared configuration information across the network from the LDAP

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