4.1 N-Client Registration with ILS

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When a client is started for the first time, the user is prompted to enter information that others can use to find them in a directory.

It is also possible for the user to enter a directory name. This can be a NetBIOS name, a DNS name, or an IPv4 address. Once this information is entered (it is not validated), the user can log on to the specified directory. It is possible to configure the client to log on to the named directory server on startup.

Client registration options

Figure 1: Client registration options

Logging on, or directory registration, is a four-step LDAP process. The first three steps obtain a server response; there is no response to the Unbind operation. The four LDAP operations are as follows:

  1. LDAP Bind

  2. LDAP Add

  3. LDAP Modify

  4. LDAP Unbind