Software that requests licensing services from license service providers.
An NLS client runs on client workstations and on NetWare servers. (The client can run on either a workstation or a server or on both the workstation and the server.) This software supports 32-bit Windows and NetWare Loadable Module™ (NLM™) platforms. When you install NLS on a server, all of the files that enable an application to use NLS are copied to the sys:\public and sys:\system directories on the server.
Other than the client software, no additional files need to be installed on client workstations. Applications written to use NLS load client libraries that communicate with NLS components running on a NetWare server.
If a 32-bit Windows NLS client has an existing connection to a NetWare server running an license service provider, the client communicates directly with the license service provider. If the client does not already have a connection to a server running an license service provider, the client searches from the server’s context upward in the eDirectory tree for an license service provider.
An NLM client does not search. It simply examines the current connection.
See Section 1.3, How Novell Licensing Services Works for more information.