Re: [CentOS] LDAP howto using ds-base and ds-admin and related consoles

2009-07-31 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Tony Molloy wrote: > Installing centos-ds is not a problem. It's what you do after it. Especially > for people like me who have no experience with OpenLDAP. > >> >> Linux and Windows user authentication is straightforward, with GUI >> based setup and editing. >> >

Re: [CentOS] LDAP howto using ds-base and ds-admin and related consoles

2009-07-31 Thread Tony Molloy
On Friday 31 July 2009 16:12:12 Craig White wrote: > On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 16:00 +0100, Tony Molloy wrote: > > > But this all would be virtually impossible without a decent > > > > knowledge of > > > > > how LDAP works and that is regardless of whether you use CentOS-DS > > > > or > > > > > OpenLDA

Re: [CentOS] LDAP howto using ds-base and ds-admin and related consoles

2009-07-31 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 16:00 +0100, Tony Molloy wrote: > > But this all would be virtually impossible without a decent > knowledge of > > how LDAP works and that is regardless of whether you use CentOS-DS > or > > OpenLDAP. > > > > Craig > > After reading Carter's book I think i've got some idea of

Re: [CentOS] LDAP howto using ds-base and ds-admin and related consoles

2009-07-31 Thread Tony Molloy
On Friday 31 July 2009 15:05:29 Craig White wrote: > > I'm going through the Howto:Samba from at > > the moment and hopefully that will get me started. > > > > But what would be nice is: > > > > 1. Howto:migtate existing NIS to CentosDS > > 2. Howto:migrate existing Samba to CentosDS > > >

Re: [CentOS] LDAP howto using ds-base and ds-admin and related consoles

2009-07-31 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 08:20 +0100, Tony Molloy wrote: > On Thursday 30 July 2009 19:23:24 Kwan Lowe wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Rob Kampen > > wrote: [snip] > > > > > I have read many hundreds of pages, have purchased O'reilly's LDAP System > > > Administration but cannot seem to ge

Re: [CentOS] LDAP howto using ds-base and ds-admin and related consoles

2009-07-31 Thread Tony Molloy
On Thursday 30 July 2009 19:23:24 Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Rob Kampen > wrote: [snip] > > > I have read many hundreds of pages, have purchased O'reilly's LDAP System > > Administration but cannot seem to get my dirsrv based LDAP to function. > > I do understand that ds us

Re: [CentOS] LDAP howto using ds-base and ds-admin and related consoles

2009-07-30 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: [snip] > I have read many hundreds of pages, have purchased O'reilly's LDAP System > Administration but cannot seem to get my dirsrv based LDAP to function. > I do understand that ds uses LDIF files to store and set things up, but seem > unable to

Re: [CentOS] LDAP howto using ds-base and ds-admin and related consoles

2009-07-30 Thread James Chamberlain
On Jul 30, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: > Hi, > I have previously used openLDAP and read many of their howto > documents for establishing an LDAP server. > RH and CentOS provide -ds-base and related rpms and I like > what I see and read about the product. > I found the wiki article on i

[CentOS] LDAP howto using ds-base and ds-admin and related consoles

2009-07-30 Thread Rob Kampen
Hi, I have previously used openLDAP and read many of their howto documents for establishing an LDAP server. RH and CentOS provide -ds-base and related rpms and I like what I see and read about the product. I found the wiki article on installing the rpms and getting it running on a server - so f