LDAP-UX Client Services B.05.00 with Microsoft Windows Active Directory Server Administrator's Guide (obsolete beyond B.05.00)

1 Introduction
LDAP-UX Client Services simplifies HP-UX system administration by consolidating account and
configuration information into a central LDAP directory. This LDAP directory can reside on an HP-UX
system, such as HP-UX Directory Server 8.1 and higher, or the account information could be
integrated into Microsoft Windows 2003 R2/2008 Active Directory Server.
Information provided in this manual specifically outlines the installation and administration tasks
of LDAP-UX Client Services B.05.00 with Microsoft Windows 2003 R2/2008 Active Directory.
NOTE: For software releases subsequent to B.05.00, information about installing, configuring,
and administering LDAP-UX Client Services with Windows ADS is provided by the LDAP-UX Client
Services Administrator Guide, which now covers both HP directory server and Windows ADS
environments. There will no longer be a separate administrator guide specific to Windows ADS
integration.
For information about integration of LDAP-UX Client Services with HP-UX based directories, refer
to LDAP-UX Client Services Administrator's Guide at:
http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-security-docs (Click HP-UX LDAP-UX Integration Software)
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representative for details.
This chapter introduces and briefly describes LDAP-UX Client Services and briefly describes how
it works..
1.1 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, and store the retrieved information, as shown in
Figure 1:
Figure 1 A simplified NIS environment
NIS master server
Map transfers
NIS Client Requests
NIS slave server NIS slave server
NIS client NIS clientNIS client
LDAP-UX Client Services for Microsoft Windows 2003 R2/2008 Active Directory improves 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 shown in Figure 2 (page 11). This adds
10 Introduction