Tyrone Baseck writes: > Is there a benefit to having a 1 main Directory server and a directory > server for each platform? > > example: Sun to do the provisioning for all applications and > platforms. But you have Edirectory for Novell; ETrust for > TopSecret/RACF...etc
Hopefully not, but: Some vendors' LDAP clients expect a server with the LDAP features of their own LDAP server. Different LDAP servers have different extensions or even incompatibilities with the LDAP standard. And the may not implement the whole standard - in particular not the X.500 data model. So it depends on what you're using LDAP for and which clients you have. Also clients that use LDAP for their data store may have conflicting needs, so it can make sense to have a dedicated LDAP server for a particular client. However then the client may come from a program package with its own bundled LDAP server, so you don't need to think about it. E.g. Windows with Active Directory and Notes which I think has its own LDAP server, with its own peculiar directory structure. -- Hallvard
