The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the use of OpenLDAP as the core directory service for a heterogeneous environment. The LDAP server provides a shared e-mail directory, a unified login for ...

Directory services is one of the most interesting and crucial parts of computing today. They provide our account management, basic authentication, address books and a back-end repository for the ...

The O'Reilly book is relatively good. The first few chapters cover LDAP basic nicely. But, like most doc on LDAP I have seen so far, it concentrate too much on the implementation and not enough on the ...

So, i'm migrating our samba fileserver from Ubuntu 6.06 to 8.04 and onto new hardware as well and have run into a problem with the valid user directive.<BR><BR>We have samba setup to authenticate ...

Any server administrator who came up through the Novell ranks knows the value of directories; Netware Directory Services has been a valuable tool to network admins for years, allowing for control of ...