Since we have LDAP and DHCP etc working, I normally do a network install, and DrakX (when given just my hostname) gets everything right. Setting up LDAP, it even pulls our prefix (dc=cae,dc=co,dc=za) out of the domainname it got from DHCP. The only irritation is that it defaults to localhost for the LDAP server. Somehow I don't see how I could manage to setup a working LDAP server on the machine by first boot so that I can log in ;-)
Could this be changed to be something sensible like ldap.domainname (since it already has the correct domainname). I am quite sure that ldap.domainname will not have exist if it doesn't run ldap, and adding an A or CNAME record if the name doesn't exist is less effort than setting ldap.domainname on a number of machines, for each installation. This is the only change I have to make to get LDAP accounts working, so kudos on the rest. Buchan
