FIGURE 28.4 The user logs in to the database server located on host Simba
from the workstation (host Cheetah). The database client is running on
Simba.
In the other scenario, shown in Figure 28.5, the user logs in to a remote host
through SSH and starts a program on it to access the database, but the
database is actually running on a different system. Three systems are now
involved: the user’s workstation, the remote host running the database client,
and the remote host running the database server.
The important thing to note in Figure 28.5 is the middle system Leopard.
Although the client is no longer running on the database server itself, it isn’t
running on the user’s local workstation, either.