LDAP-UX Client Services B.04.00 with Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 Active Directory Administrator's Guide

Introduction
Overview of LDAP-UX Client Services
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Overview of LDAP-UX Client Services
Traditionally, HP-UX account and configuration information is stored in
text files, for example /etc/passwd and /etc/group. Network
Information Service (NIS) was developed to ease system administration
by sharing this information across systems 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 in Figure 1-1:
Figure 1-1 A Simplified NIS Environment
LDAP-UX Client Services for Microsoft Windows 2000 or 2003 Active
Directory improve on this configuration information sharing. HP-UX
account and configuration information is stored in Active Directory
instead of on the local client system. Client systems retrieve this shared
configuration information across the network from Active Directory, as
NIS clientNIS client
NIS slave server
NIS master server
NIS slave server
Map transfers
NIS client
NIS Requests