1.4 Relationship to Other Protocols

This protocol depends on the RPC protocol because it uses RPC as a transport.

The server-side protocol relationships for non-domain controller and domain controller configurations are illustrated in the following diagrams:

Server-side protocol relationships for a non-domain controller configuration

Figure 1: Server-side protocol relationships for a non-domain controller configuration

Server-side protocol relationships for a domain controller configuration

Figure 2: Server-side protocol relationships for a domain controller configuration

In the DC configuration, the data manipulated by the server of this protocol is stored in Active Directory and is therefore replicated by the replication protocol (described in [MS-DRSR]), made available through the LDAP interface (see [MS-ADTS] section 3.1.1.3), and replicated by the NETLOGON replication interface (as specified in [MS-NRPC]). The data manipulated by the server of this protocol is used as a security principal database for authentication protocols such as NTLM [MS-NLMP] and Kerberos [MS-KILE].