LDAP-UX Client Services B.04.00 Administrator's Guide

Introduction
Overview of LDAP-UX Client Services
Chapter 12
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:
Figure 1-1 A Simplified NIS Environment
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
NIS clientNIS client
NIS slave server
NIS master server
NIS slave server
Map transfers
NIS client
NIS Requests